On Wednesday 10 June 2015 07:28:06 Rick Andrews wrote:
> I don't understand. The domain owner/admin is not a third party. 

the third party in question was an entity running the CT service

and since they can produce a certificate signed by a trusted CA as a proof of 
misissuance, the data itself is also trusted. Independent of your trust of the 
third party.

> 
> -Rick
> 
> 
> > On Jun 10, 2015, at 4:01 AM, Hubert Kario <hka...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >> On Tuesday 09 June 2015 11:57:40 Rick Andrews wrote:
> >> 
> >>> On Tuesday, June 9, 2015 at 3:05:30 AM UTC-7, Hubert Kario wrote:
> >>> True, OTOH, if a third party says that there was a misissuance, that
> >>> means
> >>> there was one.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> I disagree. Only the domain owner knows for sure what is a misissuance,
> >> and what isn't. It seems likely that I might turn over all known certs
> >> for my domain to the third party, but they might find another one, and I
> >> might say "oh, yeah, I forgot about that one". So a third party can only
> >> report to the domain owner, but cannot know if the cert is legitimate.
> > 
> > 
> > the implied situation was that the tool is run by the domain owner/admin
> > 
> > -- 
> > Regards,
> > Hubert Kario
> > Quality Engineer, QE BaseOS Security team
> > Web: www.cz.redhat.com
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