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Re: [TLS] Consensus Call on MTI Algorithms

Rob Stradling <rob.stradling@comodo.com> Thu, 02 April 2015 09:12 UTC

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On 02/04/15 01:46, Yaron Sheffer wrote:
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> Also, just wondering: is ECDSA popular enough today to be a MUST?

All of the certificates used by CloudFlare's "Universal SSL" are ECDSA 
certificates issued by Comodo.

When CloudFlare announced "Universal SSL" six months ago, they said:
   "Yesterday, there were about 2 million sites active on the Internet 
that supported encrypted connections. By the end of the day today, we'll 
have doubled that."

Before "Universal SSL", Netcraft's SSL Survey found only ~80 ECDSA 
publicly-trusted ECDSA certs.  But now, simply because of "Universal 
SSL", I would definitely say that ECDSA is "popular enough today to be a 
MUST".

> For example, is the CAB Forum pushing its members to deploy such certificates?

Pushing?  Not that I've noticed.


[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-universal-ssl/


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Rob Stradling
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