Hi,

I was notified that the attachments were lost in transmission, so here
are the links:

cert_no_dcv: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1s43AaW5lCkSzbr-If6l2F_gwLkwDVy6w
cert_by_issuer_no_dcv:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-er8R2CfcG8CRK4I3KUXnv8PDgGQKc1Y
cert_by_issuer_name_no_dcv:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1DHwpEwU0qP1FiJx6Wb6L-kMQEIp3atKX

-Matthias

On Fri, 1 Nov 2019 at 11:08, Matthias van de Meent
<matthias.vandeme...@cofano.nl> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I recently noticed that a lot of leaf certificates [0] have
> organizationalUnitName specified without other organizational
> information such as organizationName. Many times this field is used
> for branding purposes, e.g. "issued through <someone's kpi manager>"
> or "SomeBrand SSL".
>
> BR v1.6.6 ยง 7.1.4.2.2i has guidance on usage of the OU field: "The CA
> SHALL implement a process that prevents an OU attribute from including
> a name, DBA, tradename, trademark, address, location, or other text
> that refers to a specific natural person or Legal Entity unless the CA
> has verified this information in accordance with Section 3.2 and the
> Certificate also contains subject:organizationName, ,
> subject:givenName, subject:surname, subject:localityName, and
> subject:countryName attributes, also verified in accordance with
> Section 3.2.2.1."
>
> As the organizationName and other related attributes are not set in
> many of those certificates, even though e.g. "COMODO SSL Unified
> Communications" is a very strong reference to Sectigo's ssl branding &
> business, I believe the referenced certificate is not issued in line
> with the BR.
>
> Is the above interpretation of BR section 7.1.4.2.2i correct?
>
> - Matthias
>
> [0] please find attached 3 files which contain a query on the crt.sh
> database, with their results ( queried 2019-10-30T10:00:00Z and
> T12:00:00Z )
> The queries count certificate IDs in the range 1890000000 ...
> 1900000000 (10M possible certificate IDs), and are filtering
> certificates which have an organizationalUnitName <> 'Domain Control
> Validated', but not the organizationName field:
> - cert_no_dcv: Total count count of the filtered certificate_ids
> - cert_by_issuer_no_dcv: Counted, grouped by issuer ID. This can
> contain duplicate counts, but only due to multiple issuer_ca_ids per
> certificate, which should not exist.
> - cert_by_issuer_name_no_dcv: Counted, grouped by issuer &
> organizationalUnitName: Certificates may be counted twice here due to
> multiple OU entries for one certificate.
_______________________________________________
dev-security-policy mailing list
dev-security-policy@lists.mozilla.org
https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security-policy

Reply via email to