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Re: [Trans] defining "mis-issuance"

Rob Stradling <rob.stradling@comodo.com> Wed, 01 October 2014 15:33 UTC

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On 01/10/14 16:05, Stephen Kent wrote:
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> Rick,
<snip>
> Still, your point is a good one.  We could push the syntax checking back
> to Monitors, but then we loose the ability to provide immediate feedback
> to CAs that are issuing syntactically malformed certs. I'll have to think
> more about this issue.

Stephen,
The "ability to provide immediate feedback to CAs that are issuing 
syntactically malformed certs" sounds like a nice idea, but surely this 
could be implemented as a stand-alone application or web service?
Why would you want it to be an intrinsic part of CT?

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Rob Stradling
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