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Re: [TLS] OCSP must staple

Yoav Nir <ynir.ietf@gmail.com> Mon, 09 June 2014 07:12 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] OCSP must staple
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On Jun 9, 2014, at 8:44 AM, Kyle Hamilton <aerowolf@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On the other hand, I think that relying on a stapled response is perhaps
> shortsighted, as it potentially opens a window of vulnerability.  Say
> the OCSP response is valid for 7 days (the maximum time that EV cert
> OCSP responses can be valid for): if the cert is revoked on day 2,
> that's still 5 and change days of potential validity.  This is the kind
> of vulnerability that clients can use the OCSP nonce extension to
> protect themselves from, but it only works if it's used and queried from
> the OCSP responder by the client itself.  Thus, the proposal to prevent
> clients from checking OCSP from the source in the presence of an "OCSP
> must staple" extension is harmful to user security and thus wrong-minded.

I think one of the points of “must staple” is that it allows the CA to shorten the TTL without having its OCSP responder overwhelmed with traffic from clients.

Yoav

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