[Cryptography] Mutually authenticated TLS

Bill Frantz frantz at pwpconsult.com
Fri Mar 9 18:29:03 EST 2018


On 3/8/18 at 3:25 PM, nico at cryptonector.com (Nico Williams) wrote:

>Speaking of fresh certs, I think we should just converge on fresh certs
>and to hell with OCSP and CRLs.  This necessitates an online CA to
>re-issue certs often, but so what.

This was our conclusion when we did the Simple Public Key 
Infrastructure (SPKI) work in the IETF. SPKI certs can't be 
revoked. They have to time out.

Cheers - Bill

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