Re: [Acme] I-D Action: draft-ietf-acme-tls-alpn-00.txt

Jacob Hoffman-Andrews <jsha@eff.org> Tue, 06 March 2018 00:42 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Acme] I-D Action: draft-ietf-acme-tls-alpn-00.txt
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On 03/05/2018 04:37 PM, Tim Hollebeek wrote:
> I think we may come to regret using that trick so much.  Such schemes
> are only one software bug away from having rather profound effects
> on trust decisions and the entire ecosystem.
This is a good point, but an important mitigating factor is that these
are self-signed certificates, as compared to CT's precertificates, which
are signed by a trusted issuer but poisoned. And they are only presented
when the acme/1 ALPN is negotiated. So you'd need three software bugs,
each of which would be a game-over bug on its own:

 - ignoring a critical extension
 - trusting a self-signed certificate
 - sending acme/1 ALPN for non-validation traffic