Thanks Rob. I came to the same conclusion. I am a contractor supporting the Federal PKI and do not speak on their behalf, but would like to help clear up some misconceptions around the Federal PKI.
1) The Symantec Cross Cert has not been revoked. The Federal PKI is an identity federation based on mutual trust of people. Multiple federal and non-federal organizations coming together based on common identity assurances for the benefit of G2G, C2G, and B2G digital transactions. Every affiliate within the Federal PKI adheres to the Federal Bridge CP which is based off NIST and international standards and other federal laws around identity management and information security to establish trusted operations and the criteria for a level of assurance. Multiple federal mandates and laws exist for the use of the Federal Bridge to accept commercial PKI credentials for electronic authentication and digital signature (mentioned below). Participating PKIs enter into a legal agreement (MOA) with the federal government to establish that trust and define the requirements around mutual recognition (Application for cross certification, https://www.idmanagement.gov/IDM/servlet/fileField?entityId=ka0t0000000TNS6AAO&field=File__Body__s). T his is evidenced through the exchange of certificates between organizational PKIs (In this case between the Federal Bridge and the Symantec CA) after a passing audit report. The FPKI audit requirements are based on a direct CP to CPS analysis with annual core requirements which provides improved assurance that affiliates continue to operate according to the Federal Bridge CP (https://www.idmanagement.gov/IDM/servlet/fileField?entityId=ka0t0000000TNYYAA4&field=File__Body__s). Without the exchange, there is no mutual trust. Symantec is a valued partner within the Federal PKI supporting nine non-federal organizations with 33 operational CAs under the Federal PKI non-federal issuer program. To revoke the Symantec certificate, the certificates issued by organizations under Symantec would no longer be trusted by federal relying parties. Symantec is resolving the issue with the Federal PKI Policy Authority, but the risk to revoking the certificate is still uncertain. 2) It is not acceptable for CAs trusted by the Mozilla Program to cross-sign with the Federal Bridge (From Richard Barnes) There is a fundamental and growing philosophical difference between the Federal PKI (based on strong assurance of people identities for general use) and the PKI industry (assurance of device identities for specific uses). The Federal PKI continues to work to update our requirements to meet Mozilla program acceptance, but it is a difficult path. The Federal PKI is a heavily regulated environment governed by its members, federal regulations, and operated according to NIST and international standards. The Federal PKI is composed of: - 19 affiliates - 254 CAs - 71 issuing partners - 93 federal agencies - >five million users - >22 million active certificates issued to both people and devices This does not include the federal relying party and commercial applications which accept FPKI certificates for authentication or other purposes. It is important to the Federal PKI that theses certificates are trusted to meet multiple federal drivers around electronic authentication/digital signature (Digital Signature and Electronic Authentication Act, Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, and Government Paperwork Elimination Act) as well as PKI interoperability (E-Government Act) and strong authentication (Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12, White House Cybersecurity Strategy and Implementation Plan, and White House Cybersecurity National Action Plan) requirements. In some cases it is not a simple process to update the Federal PKI Certificate Policies, but we are very close to meeting the last two Mozilla requirements for our application which include incorporating CAB Forum BR and Mozilla CP requirements and publicly posting CP, CPS, and audit letters for the Shared Service Providers. Even small changes have a lasting impact to both federal budget and operational practices and must be understand. If you're interested in a closer look, I've attached a white paper of the FPKI Infrastructure and Architecture (https://www.idmanagement.gov/IDM/s/document_detail?Id=kA0t0000000KyroCAC). Ken -----Original Message----- From: Rob Stradling [mailto:rob.stradl...@comodo.com] Sent: Monday, June 27, 2016 09:01 To: Myers, Kenneth (10421) <kenneth.my...@protiviti.com>; dev-security-policy@lists.mozilla.org Subject: Re: Intermediate certificate disclosure deadline in 2 weeks On 27/06/16 12:13, Myers, Kenneth (10421) wrote: > The Federal PKI has a tool to help identify trust paths, > FPKI-graph.fpki-lab.gov<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__fpki-2Dgraph.fpki-2Dlab.gov&d=CwIC-g&c=19TEyCb-E0do3cLmFgm9ItTXlbGQ5gmhRAlAtE256go&r=v6QfMBgWaMWhsB_PpBwwzxPtUwSffCWXSAR0gp0RFbY&m=DlNVTZg70U3he7Kt-304vEDqF9fDGX8jfPq5RnStn50&s=pqUpzJZnt7pQ1HsJr6dBrqifrxrdjl-iFkah0G685TY&e= > >. > > I can do a true-up between the Mozilla CA list and FPKI trust paths to help > identify which path may be causing the issue. Hi Kenneth. It would be great if you could do that, especially if there are any trust paths that are not yet known to CT / crt.sh. I've just run some analysis on the crt.sh DB. It's the following 2 cross-certificates that are of interest: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__crt.sh_-3Fid-3D9114292&d=CwIC-g&c=19TEyCb-E0do3cLmFgm9ItTXlbGQ5gmhRAlAtE256go&r=v6QfMBgWaMWhsB_PpBwwzxPtUwSffCWXSAR0gp0RFbY&m=DlNVTZg70U3he7Kt-304vEDqF9fDGX8jfPq5RnStn50&s=diEBbsWTZ7Zo0d_TwT8WGR-3EwDoH469HqxCqlif53k&e= Issuer: IdenTrust ACES CA 1 Subject: Federal Bridge CA 2013 OneCRL: Already revoked. Salesforce: Not yet disclosed. https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__crt.sh_-3Fid-3D12638543&d=CwIC-g&c=19TEyCb-E0do3cLmFgm9ItTXlbGQ5gmhRAlAtE256go&r=v6QfMBgWaMWhsB_PpBwwzxPtUwSffCWXSAR0gp0RFbY&m=DlNVTZg70U3he7Kt-304vEDqF9fDGX8jfPq5RnStn50&s=JB_38bUAYT_Hl4B58oExVy_P8sXMISQGtZhyoyoSx2U&e= Issuer: VeriSign Class 3 SSP Intermediate CA - G2 Subject: Federal Bridge CA 2013 OneCRL: Not yet revoked. Salesforce: Not yet disclosed. If/when both of these intermediates are disclosed to Salesforce as "revoked", crt.sh should (once Mozilla have updated the CSV reports) detect the FPKI trust paths as "revoked". Richard Barnes wrote on 23rd: "It should be clear by this point that it is not acceptable for CAs trusted by the Mozilla program to cross-sign the Federal Bridge" That Symantec cross-cert has not yet even been revoked via CRL! > Kenneth Myers > Supporting the GSA Federal PKI Management Authority Protiviti | > Government Solutions | Manager Alexandria | +1 > 571-366-6120<tel:+1%20571-366-6120> | > kenneth.my...@protiviti.com<mailto:kenneth.my...@protiviti.com> > Connect: > LinkedIn<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.link > edin.com_in_kennethmy&d=CwIC-g&c=19TEyCb-E0do3cLmFgm9ItTXlbGQ5gmhRAlAt > E256go&r=v6QfMBgWaMWhsB_PpBwwzxPtUwSffCWXSAR0gp0RFbY&m=DlNVTZg70U3he7K > t-304vEDqF9fDGX8jfPq5RnStn50&s=yxnEOhIxqEJxYCndopgWxHD8FxhHFsjtBlvztmv > whhM&e= > | Thought Leadership: > Protiviti.com<http://www.protiviti.it/en-US/Pages/Insights.aspx> > > On Jun 24, 2016, at 08:01, > "dev-security-policy-requ...@lists.mozilla.org<mailto:dev-security-policy-requ...@lists.mozilla.org>" > > <dev-security-policy-requ...@lists.mozilla.org<mailto:dev-security-policy-requ...@lists.mozilla.org>> > wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Bowen [mailto:pzbo...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2016 3:35 PM > To: Eric Mill <e...@konklone.com<mailto:e...@konklone.com>> > Cc: Ben Wilson > <ben.wil...@digicert.com<mailto:ben.wil...@digicert.com>>; Kurt Roeckx > <k...@roeckx.be<mailto:k...@roeckx.be>>; Richard Barnes > <rbar...@mozilla.com<mailto:rbar...@mozilla.com>>; Jeremy Rowley > <jeremy.row...@digicert.com<mailto:jeremy.row...@digicert.com>>; Steve > <steve.me...@gmail.com<mailto:steve.me...@gmail.com>>; > mozilla-dev-security-pol...@lists.mozilla.org<mailto:mozilla-dev-secur > ity-pol...@lists.mozilla.org>; Kathleen Wilson > <kwil...@mozilla.com<mailto:kwil...@mozilla.com>>; Rob Stradling > <rob.stradl...@comodo.com<mailto:rob.stradl...@comodo.com>> > Subject: Re: Intermediate certificate disclosure deadline in 2 weeks > > DigiCert didn't cross-sign the Federal PKI with their Mozilla trusted CAs. > > I'm sure Ben will tell me I have my terminology wrong, but DigiCert basically > operates two PKIs: > - DigiCert Public WebPKI > - DigiCert Shared FederatedPKI > > The first is a set of CAs that are in the Mozilla program and CAs signed by > the Mozilla program. The second is a set of CAs that are signed by the US > Federal PKI; they are not in the Mozilla program. > > The problem is that some non-DigiCert CA int he Mozilla program signed the US > Federal PKI. The DigiCert Shared FederatedPKI is now brought in via that > signature, with which they had nothing to do. > > On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 1:41 PM, Eric Mill > <e...@konklone.com<mailto:e...@konklone.com>> wrote: > Peter, I think I get what you're saying about this being a different > category of cross-sign, but could you spell out explicitly how this > differs from e.g. the Identrust cross-sign issue that Richard linked to? > > -- Eric > > On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 4:39 PM, Ben Wilson > <ben.wil...@digicert.com<mailto:ben.wil...@digicert.com>> wrote: > > That's correct. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Bowen [mailto:pzbo...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2016 2:39 PM > To: Ben Wilson > <ben.wil...@digicert.com<mailto:ben.wil...@digicert.com>> > Cc: Eric Mill <e...@konklone.com<mailto:e...@konklone.com>>; Kurt > Roeckx <k...@roeckx.be<mailto:k...@roeckx.be>>; > Richard Barnes <rbar...@mozilla.com<mailto:rbar...@mozilla.com>>; > Jeremy Rowley > <jeremy.row...@digicert.com<mailto:jeremy.row...@digicert.com>>; Steve > <steve.me...@gmail.com<mailto:steve.me...@gmail.com>>; > mozilla-dev-security-pol...@lists.mozilla.org<mailto:mozilla-dev-secur > ity-pol...@lists.mozilla.org>; Kathleen Wilson > <kwil...@mozilla.com<mailto:kwil...@mozilla.com>>; Rob Stradling > <rob.stradl...@comodo.com<mailto:rob.stradl...@comodo.com>> > Subject: Re: Intermediate certificate disclosure deadline in 2 weeks > > On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Ben Wilson > <ben.wil...@digicert.com<mailto:ben.wil...@digicert.com>> > wrote: > Another issue that needs to be resolved involves the Federal Bridge > CA 2013 (?Federal Bridge?). When a publicly trusted sub CA > cross-certifies the Federal Bridge, then all of the CAs > cross-certified by the Federal Bridge > are trusted. The chart > (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__crt.sh_mozilla-2Ddisclosures&d=CwICAg&c=19TEyCb-E0do3cLmFgm9ItTXlbGQ5gmhRAlAtE256go&r=v6QfMBgWaMWhsB_PpBwwzxPtUwSffCWXSAR0gp0RFbY&m=1UjPfxX9IFMWqfbTaQcpveBJs1JYI4p_EuZaqww5tuQ&s=uEywlyUMGlYbep6vFNZz0xasu6IojurxbFc_8QrcDW0&e= > ) then > captures > all ?non-publicly-trusted? sub CAs. For instance, the following CAs > are now caught up in the database, but there is no way to input them > (or CAs subordinate to them) into Salesforce because only the CA that > cross-certified the Federal Bridge has access to that certificate > chain in Salesforce. In otherwords, I don?t have access to input the > DigiCert Federated ID CA-1 or its sub CAs. > > > Ben, > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but the DigiCert CA you mention is part of a > different PKI from the DigiCert public roots in Mozilla, right? The > only reason that it is showing in the list is because a non-DigiCert > CA cross-signed the Federal PKI and the Federal PKI cross-signed the > DigiCert CA in question, correct? > > Thanks, > Peter > > > > > > -- > konklone.com<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__konkl > one.com&d=CwIC-g&c=19TEyCb-E0do3cLmFgm9ItTXlbGQ5gmhRAlAtE256go&r=v6QfM > BgWaMWhsB_PpBwwzxPtUwSffCWXSAR0gp0RFbY&m=DlNVTZg70U3he7Kt-304vEDqF9fDG > X8jfPq5RnStn50&s=c1rqzKNHVjlgTVwNLW7gmcTVRl_FBL23W8HwCSj5YQ4&e= > | > @konklone > NOTICE: Protiviti is a global consulting and internal audit firm composed of > experts specializing in risk and advisory services. 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