On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 8:29 AM Watson Ladd <watsonbl...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 8:25 AM Eric Rescorla <e...@rtfm.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On the narrow point of shorter lifetimes, I don't think the right way to
> advertise that you have an accurate clock is to advertise that you support
> some set of root certificates.
> >
> > If we want to say that, we should have an extension that actually says
> you have an accurate clock.
>
> That says you *think* you have an accurate clock.
>

Quite so. However, if servers gate the use of some kind of short-lived
credential
on a client signal that the client thinks it has an accurate clock (however
that
signal is encoded) and the clients are frequently wrong about that, we're
going
to have big problems.

-Ekr




> Sincerely,
> Watson
>
> --
> Astra mortemque praestare gradatim
>
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