On Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 10:29 AM 'Matthew McPherrin' via
[email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:

> The "distrust after" dates are specific to root programs like Mozilla, and
> not a CA/B Forum thing at all. There's no "non-standard extensions" ...
> because there's no extensions at all. It is not represented in X509, or in
> any format beyond Mozilla's internal ones.
>
> The fact that Linux distributions and other software like Alpine and curl
> are "copying Mozilla's homework" and not getting the full metadata is a
> problem, but I don't think the fault lies at Mozilla's feet here.
>

Hear, hear. These distributions are free to maintain their own CA lists if
they would like, or copy Chrome/Microsoft/Apple/Cisco's homework instead.
Or they can do the work to actually process the NSS internal root store in
a way that's semantically-consistent with Firefox's use of it.

Mike

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