On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 8:40 PM, Jakob Bohm via dev-security-policy <
dev-security-policy@lists.mozilla.org> wrote:

> On 17/04/2018 20:24, Wayne Thayer wrote:
>
>> This proposal is to require intermediate certificates to be dedicated to
>> specific purposes by EKU. Beginning at some future date, all newly created
>> intermediate certificates containing either the id-kp-serverAuth or
>> id-kp-emailProtection EKUs would be required to contain only a single EKU.
>>
>> Arguments for this requirement are that it reduces risk of an incident in
>> which one type of certificate affecting another type, and it could allow
>> some policies to be restricted to specific types of certificates.
>>
>>
> One case that needs to be considered is specifying a set of closely
> related EKUs, which are desirable to include in the same end entity
> certificate.  A typical combination would be emailProtection and
> clientAuth, for the same identity in the EE cert.
>
> I believe the language I proposed takes care of this:
https://github.com/mozilla/pkipolicy/commit/1ccf31557932ede045f3c2d7bcdac533c5176f18

If there are no additional comments, I will consider this issue to be
resolved and will include this change in version 2.6 of the policy.

- Wayne
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