Re: [Trans] Precertificate format
Stephen Kent <kent@bbn.com> Tue, 09 September 2014 18:23 UTC
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Subject: Re: [Trans] Precertificate format
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Rob, > ... > I don't mind us adding an alternative Precertificate format to > 6962-bis (if we can agree on a suitable format!), but I'd also like to > retain the RFC6962 Precertificate format as an option. > > Several CAs have already deployed code to generate RFC6962 > Precertificates. Why force these CAs to change to a different format > just because some other CAs find it hard to implement the RFC6962 format? Commonly in the IETF, there is no preference given to folks who have implemented against an experimental RFC when that RFC is being revised to become a standards track doc. Another way to look at this is to ask why a standards track should have to adopt a design element from an Experimental RFC that received little review? So, saying that clients, logs, auditors, etc. MUST support both seems inappropriate. > Some CAs will actually find it _easier_ to implement the RFC6962 > Precertificate format than to implement some new format that we > haven't defined yet. (My experience: When I wrote Comodo's code for > RFC6962 Precertificates, reusing the TBSCertificate format was > definitely a blessing rather than a curse). I can't argue with your personal experience as a developer. I can argue that, on the basis of 5280 (4.1.2.2), and on my experience as a developer of an HSM, the pre-cert model is very problematic. Steve
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- Re: [Trans] Precertificate format Stephen Kent
- Re: [Trans] Precertificate format Stephen Kent
- Re: [Trans] Precertificate format Stephen Kent
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- Re: [Trans] Precertificate format Stephen Kent
- Re: [Trans] Precertificate format Ben Laurie
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- Re: [Trans] Precertificate format Stephen Kent
- Re: [Trans] Precertificate format Brian Smith
- Re: [Trans] Precertificate format Hill, Brad
- Re: [Trans] Precertificate format Brian Smith
- Re: [Trans] Precertificate format Brian Smith
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- Re: [Trans] Precertificate format Kyle Hamilton
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- Re: [Trans] Precertificate format Tomas Gustavsson
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- Re: [Trans] Precertificate format Ben Laurie
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- Re: [Trans] Precertificate format Stephen Kent
- Re: [Trans] Precertificate format Stephen Kent
- Re: [Trans] Precertificate format Stephen Kent
- Re: [Trans] Precertificate format Stephen Kent
- Re: [Trans] Precertificate format Stephen Kent
- Re: [Trans] Precertificate format Melinda Shore
- Re: [Trans] Precertificate format Melinda Shore
- Re: [Trans] Precertificate format Ben Laurie
- Re: [Trans] Precertificate format Rob Stradling
- Re: [Trans] Precertificate format Ben Laurie
- Re: [Trans] Precertificate format Stephen Kent
- Re: [Trans] Precertificate format Ben Laurie
- Re: [Trans] Precertificate format Stephen Kent
- Re: [Trans] Precertificate format Jeremy Rowley
- Re: [Trans] Precertificate format Erwann Abalea
- Re: [Trans] Precertificate format Rob Stradling
- Re: [Trans] Precertificate format Erwann Abalea
- Re: [Trans] Precertificate format Rob Stradling
- Re: [Trans] Precertificate format Stephen Kent
- Re: [Trans] Precertificate format Stephen Kent
- Re: [Trans] Precertificate format Rob Stradling
- Re: [Trans] Precertificate format Erwann Abalea
- [Trans] Precertificate format Ben Laurie
- Re: [Trans] Precertificate format Melinda Shore
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