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Re: [therightkey] How many documents?

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Mon, 29 October 2012 20:35 UTC

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On Oct 29, 2012, at 12:19 PM, Ben Laurie <benl@google.com> wrote:

> On 29 October 2012 19:18, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> wrote:
>> On Oct 26, 2012, at 9:16 AM, Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> wrote:
>> 
>>> Assuming for the moment that we do go ahead and
>>> standardise CT, how many documents (RFCs) ought be
>>> used to document that?
>> 
>> 1. It needs to be written so that both CAs and browser vendors can read it, but that's the only requirement. Extra points for a generally-readable summary and maybe an appendix for the layperson, but the definition of the scheme can live in a single document.
> 
> Actually, there are monitors, too.

Yes, but if I am going to trust a monitor, they had better damn well at least as technically capable as the CAs and the browsers. My personal hope is for a small number of obviously-trusted monitors, not a thousand flowers blooming.

--Paul Hoffman

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