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RE: DISCUSS: MUST reject in OCSPv1



> From: Ryan M. Hurst
> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 12:25 PM
>
> [rmh] But what prevents the nonce unsupported
>       response from being replayed?



While a caveated response can be replayed, it bears with it
unambiguous signed proof that the client's request for
anti-replay would not have been successful in the first place.

This is substantially different from replay of a nonceless
response captured from a server able and willing to support
nonces, but also able and willing to support non-nonced requests
(hence the capture and replay).

In the former case, the replay protection is not there to begin
with and the server/service is being forthright about that.  Any
lawyer will tell you, full disclosure is good thing, especially
in the case when one has no contracted relationship with a
relying party.

In the latter case, anti-replay *is* available but the client is
being blocked from it by an attacker.  This is not so good.

Mike