On 24/01/18 22:19, Jonathan Rudenberg wrote:
> While these CAs might want six months, it’s not clear that a good
> argument has been made for this. Let’s Encrypt stopped validating
> using the TLS-SNI-01 method under two hours after learning that there
> was a *potential* security vulnerability in the validation method.
> Why should we expect any less from other CAs? We should err on the
> side of protecting users, not CAs using insecure validation methods
> that don’t even stand up to a small amount of adversarial scrutiny.

Six months may or many not be the right timeline, but I don't think it's
fair to compare removing an option in an automated process (which was,
in fact, subsequently restored for existing customers within a few days)
with retraining all your validation specialists to use a different
manual process. Such work cannot be done in 2 hours.

Gerv

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