What issues, specifically.  (Messages are all over the place and I don’t know 
exactly what issues you’re raising.  Is it with the approach we’re proposing or 
something else?)

 

Paul

 

From: Nico Williams [mailto:n...@cryptonector.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 10:55 AM
To: Paul E. Jones
Cc: apps-disc...@ietf.org; Nico Williams; OAuth WG; HTTP Working Group; Ben 
Adida; Adam Barth; Eran Hammer-Lahav; http-st...@ietf.org
Subject: RE: [http-state] [apps-discuss] HTTP MAC Authentication Scheme

 


On Jun 8, 2011 2:09 AM, "Paul E. Jones" <pau...@packetizer.com> wrote:
>
> Nico,
>
> Cookies would still be employed.  A cookie would be used to identify the 
> particular user, for example.  However, it's important to make sure that the 
> cookie provided by the client to the server is not stolen.  It's important to 
> ensure that the client provided by the server to the client is not modified.  
> That's the reason for the MAC.  Once we can ensure the integrity of the 
> message exchange, then the existing cookie mechanism can provide us with the 
> secure state management capability we need.

You're still not addressing the issues raised.

Nico
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