Re: Let's Encrypt: 302 total OCSP responses served beyond acceptable timelines

2020-10-06 Thread Jacob Hoffman-Andrews via dev-security-policy
On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 9:09 PM Nick Lamb via dev-security-policy <
dev-security-policy@lists.mozilla.org> wrote:

> Let's Encrypt provides a community mutual assistance site (with
> contributions from staff) on which a large volume of messages are
> posted each day.
>
> https://community.letsencrypt.org/
>
> Once the problem was identified did you check to see if any messages to
> that site were likely related to this issue? I guess it's not very
> likely with a small number of deviations.
>

We did not check the Let's Encrypt community site for reports about this
issue. There's more detail in the linked Bugzilla issue: the nature of the
bug was that it would only occur for certificates that never made it into
users' hands, so no one would have seen OCSP errors. Additionally, the OCSP
responses did not exceed their NotAfter date, so they would not have
produced errors even if they were fetched by user agents.
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Re: Let's Encrypt: 302 total OCSP responses served beyond acceptable timelines

2020-09-26 Thread Nick Lamb via dev-security-policy
On Fri, 18 Sep 2020 16:48:45 -0700
Kiel Christofferson via dev-security-policy
 wrote:

> We were notified of the problem by an alert on elevated error-level
> logs. We found that the errors were caused by a recent change to our
> RPC system that, in a certain error case, caused a particular column
> in our certificate status table to have a value of "0" for a specific
> empty field rather than either the expected value or NULL. We
> collected serials and last-update timestamp information for affected
> entries, and enacted a manual plan for continued remediation of these
> entries.

Hi Kiel,

Thank you for reporting this small deviation from required behaviour.

Let's Encrypt provides a community mutual assistance site (with
contributions from staff) on which a large volume of messages are
posted each day.

https://community.letsencrypt.org/

Once the problem was identified did you check to see if any messages to
that site were likely related to this issue? I guess it's not very
likely with a small number of deviations.

Nick.

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