On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 08:45:50PM -0400, Felipe Gasper wrote:
> I suppose if I have:
> 
> GET /order/123/certificate    =>   cert for yin.com
> 
> GET /order/124/certificate    =>   cert for yang.com
> 
> … then one could surmise (however justifiably) that these two may be related, 
> so I see the point.

If these numbers are certificate serial numbers, then by all means they
must be randomized.  Even if not, predictable, serial account-number-
like numbers should not be part of a URL without some other component to
make URL generation unpredictable.

> > You could make the certificate URLs unpredictable, but then you've
> > introduced a notion of capability URLs[1], which breaks the notion
> > of having a single authentication system for ACME.
> 
> I can see that.

Eh?  Just because they are randomized / unpredictable does not mean that
they are capability URLs or confidentiality-sensitive, nor that they
must be one-time-use only.

Nico
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