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Re: [therightkey] [cabfpub] Thoughts on reducing SCT sizes (was Re: Updated Certificate Transparency + Extended Validation plan)

Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> Tue, 18 February 2014 18:40 UTC

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Subject: Re: [therightkey] [cabfpub] Thoughts on reducing SCT sizes (was Re: Updated Certificate Transparency + Extended Validation plan)
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On 02/18/2014 01:27 PM, Ben Laurie wrote:
> On 18 February 2014 17:07, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
>> Doesn't this reintroduce the perverse incentive to avoid killing a
>> known-misbehaving log?
 [...]
> That's not the rule. The rule is you need one SCT from a live log, and
> N SCTs from logs that were valid at the time of issue

Thanks.  That makes sense, and resolves my concern.

	--dkg

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