[NNTP] One more STARTTLS issue

Ken Murchison ken at oceana.com
Mon Aug 15 09:15:13 PDT 2005


Russ Allbery wrote:

> Sorry, I missed this.
> 
> I don't think we did anything about this portion of Sam's review of
> STARTTLS:
> 
> | The TLS document discusses certificate matching but does not discuss
> | certificate verification.  I'd recommend using the certificate
> | verification specified in RFC 3280.  You certainly need to say
> | something about verification.
> 
> I think this may be as simple as inserting a sentence or so with a
> normative reference to RFC 3280.

Suggested wording?  Is this a SHOULD or a MUST?

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