Re: Online Certificate Revocation Protocol
Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@rsasecurity.com> Mon, 11 June 2001 17:49 UTC
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Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 10:03:35 -0700
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All I'm saying is that "destroyed" does not mean that the key can't be recovered by someone with enough determination and expertise/money. Yes, in theory, if a key is actually wiped from existence then the security reasons for revoking its certificate are fairly weak (to be diplomatic about it). However, I seem to recall seeing reports a few months ago about some data being recovered from a hard drive even though the data was overwritten many times. Destroying information seems to be a lot harder than expected. Tony's original question concerned the accidental destruction of a key. I suggest that "accidental destruction" really means that the key is beyond the owner's ability to recover it. But that doesn't mean it's beyond everyone else's ability as well. For your average user, "destroyed" might mean that they accidentally dragged their private key file into the trashcan. This would hardly be "Destroyed" in the theoretical sense, but if the policy is that there need be no revocation when a key is "lost" then there's a huge vulnerability here. Marc Santosh Chokhani wrote: > > You could revoke, but there is no compelling security reason just because > the key is destroyed regardless of the sensitivity of the subject component > or the application. > > Now, if some other foul play is suspected as part of the destruction event, > that is another matter. >
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