On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 2:06 PM, Patrick McManus <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 4:44 PM, Eric Rescorla <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hmm... What about when you have post-handshake auth that retroactively
>> blesses requests that should have been anonymous?
>>
>
>
> TLS client auth doesn't retroactively apply.
>

Not sure I agree here. One of the standard idioms is that the server
receivesn
a a sensitive request, then sends HelloRequest, and then when the handshake
completes, delivers the response.I would call that retroactive

-Ekr




> so yeah, when I said every request on that conn I should have said every
> request on that conn while it is authenticated (and it can change and
> whatnot, not trying to write a taxonomy here.). windows auth has a similar
> property that it starts with an unauthenticated connection and a http
> response at any point could choose to start the authentication dance - but
> it doesn't apply backwards. You can see why the mulitplexing of h2 booted
> all this stuff off the island.
>
>
>
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