* Ben Laurie: > On 10 September 2016 at 15:43, Erwann Abalea <eaba...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Ironically, since you're not the Subscriber, you cannot request for >> the revocation of this certificate, at least not directly to the >> CA. If you want this certificate to be revoked, you need to ask >> Cloudflare. > > Surely not? The BRs say (4.9.2): > > "The Subscriber, RA, or Issuing CA can initiate revocation. > Additionally, Subscribers, Relying Parties, Application Software > Suppliers, and other third parties may submit Certificate Problem > Reports informing the issuing CA of reasonable cause to revoke the > certificate."
This is fairly new. Third-party revocation requests are very tricky to process promptly. For many (most?) interesting certificates, the guaranteed damage from an immediate revocation outweighs the risk from a potential man-in-the-middle attack enabled by the compromised certificate. Back in 2008, most CAs flat out refused to revoke certificates even though there was proof that the private key has been compromised. A very small-scale repeat exercise showed that this is no longer the case. _______________________________________________ dev-security-policy mailing list dev-security-policy@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security-policy
