How does the diffusion of early toBeSigned entropy create value for an event
performed once? 

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zilla.org] On Behalf Of Kurt Roeckx
Sent: Monday, February 08, 2016 4:32 PM
To: Kathleen Wilson
Cc: mozilla-dev-security-pol...@lists.mozilla.org
Subject: Re: New requirement: certlint testing

On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 12:42:46PM -0800, Kathleen Wilson wrote:
> 
> One topic currently under discussion in Bug #1201423 is regarding root 
> certificates with serial number of 0. The error being returned by 
> http://cert-checker.allizom.org/ is "Serial number must be positive".

I think a root CA is a certificate like any other, it just happens to sign
itself.  So I think it should follow the rules for every other certificate
it signs, including that the serial must be unique and positive, and
non-sequential and contain at least 20 bit of entropy.


Kurt

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