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Re: [Trans] Mutability of Certificate Signatures

Rob Stradling <rob.stradling@comodo.com> Wed, 07 June 2017 13:35 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Trans] Mutability of Certificate Signatures
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On 06/06/17 18:39, Andrew Ayer wrote:
<snip>
>> I'm trying to better understand under which circumstances such
>> certificates would end up in the log - when would a log add a
>> non-self-signed certificate as a trust anchor?
> 
> I don't know, but I have seen such certificates added as "roots" in
> existing RFC6962 logs.  It's also interesting that RFC6962-bis changed
> the language from "root" to "trust anchor" which suggests this
> practice was intended to be explicitly supported.  What was the motivation
> behind this language change?

https://trac.ietf.org/trac/trans/ticket/102

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Rob Stradling
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