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Odd to see "PSK" on the possible future feature list, with "client authentication" on the "never" list.

Other than that, looks like a nice and sane subset they've picked.

Real shame if they end up avoiding cert-based authentication, though. All other options for authentication are strictly worse, from a security perspective - and leaves more room for implementors to shoot themselves in the foot. For passwords that are intended for human users, for example, you really need some form of rate-limiting. Not to mention the problem of setting up a session first, and then later binding to a user (if authentication succeeds) rather than the simpler "only valid client can connect".




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