Re: OCSP Tracking

2011-09-06 Thread Ian G
Related but not exactly on point: == The rogue certificate found by Google was issued by the DigiNotar Public CA 2025. The serial number of the certificate was, however, not found in the CA system‟s records. This leads to the conclusion that it is unknown how many certificates were

Re: Safety of extensions (DefCon presentation)

2009-11-26 Thread Ian G
On 26/11/2009 15:35, Gervase Markham wrote: On 25/11/09 18:47, Kálmán „KAMI” Szalai wrote: Today, one of leading IT portal published an article about FIrefox with this title: Firefox is not safety because of its extensions. That's like saying Windows is not safe because of applications.

Re: A new false issued certificate by Comdo?

2009-11-04 Thread Ian G
On 04/11/2009 20:43, Paul van Brouwershaven wrote: Florian Weimer schreef: By the way, how did you obtain a copy of the certificate? They certificate owner wanted a same certificate from an other CA because this certificate has very limited browser compatibility. (read supprot for mobile

Re: security.OCSP.require in Firefox

2009-10-13 Thread Ian G
On 13/10/2009 18:23, Johnathan Nightingale wrote: On 13-Oct-09, at 2:04 AM, Rob Stradling wrote: An alternate approach I'd like to lobby our front-end guys on would be to put up a scary red bar when we can't validate OCSP. I think that your suggestion strikes a good balance between security

Re: security.OCSP.require in Firefox

2009-10-13 Thread Ian G
On 14/10/2009 02:04, Daniel Veditz wrote: On 10/13/09 9:23 AM, Johnathan Nightingale wrote: The temptation to attach UI to this problem sets off blame the user alarms for me - do we think that uses will make better decisions with this information? Like I say, I don't think we're at WONTFIX on

Re: security.OCSP.require in Firefox

2009-10-12 Thread Ian G
On 12/10/2009 12:13, Rob Stradling wrote: On Saturday 10 October 2009 16:05:32 Boris Zbarsky wrote: Some of them can handle something on the order of 1-2 OCSP requests per second, last it was tested (when AMO ended up down because the CA couldn't handle the OCSP requests for it). The EV

Re: security.OCSP.require in Firefox

2009-10-12 Thread Ian G
On 12/10/2009 13:46, Rob Stradling wrote: On Monday 12 October 2009 12:12:22 Ian G wrote: On 12/10/2009 12:13, Rob Stradling wrote: snip That CA clearly fell short of this requirement. It is ... surely a thing of customer-- CA relationship. If there are insufficient resources

Re: security.OCSP.require in Firefox

2009-10-12 Thread Ian G
On 12/10/2009 21:33, Adam Barth wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Daniel Veditzdved...@mozilla.com wrote: An alternate approach I'd like to lobby our front-end guys on would be to put up a scary red bar when we can't validate OCSP. Chrome puts up a yellow bar in this case. I see this

Economist: Browser wars are back

2009-04-26 Thread Ian G
Do people think this is a fair view?: http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13395407CFID=1252820CFTOKEN=16999516 Tech.view Browser wars are back Mar 27th 2009 From Economist.com This time the battle is over security rather than features THE good news is that the latest version

future changes to policy

2009-02-14 Thread Ian G
Guys, is there a page in wiki/CA: where we can collect points of discussion for a future review of the policy? The problem being of course that we have long discussions, reach some conclusions, but do not record those conclusions as reminders to change the policy.

Re: Proposal to split this list

2009-02-05 Thread Ian G
Excellent, OK, so I went here: https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security and subscribed. I guess it is up to each person to do that. Now, the list charter! As a starting point: == a. Discussion on security policy, governance, directions and architecture in common

definition of compromised

2009-02-05 Thread Ian G
On 5/2/09 03:23, Kyle Hamilton wrote: There are two states in the NIST key state transition diagram that are appropriate to this entire concept... compromised (state entered when the private information associated with it -- i.e., the private key and its passphrase, and has only one possible

Re: Proposal to split this list

2009-02-05 Thread Ian G
Whoops! Apparently I'm on the wrong list ... So what is the charter for this dev-security list? Ignore all the below, it is for the dev-security-policy list, or treat it as an advertisement for that list. iang On 5/2/09 14:14, Ian G wrote: Excellent, OK, so I went here: https

Re: [Anti-fraud] Re: Extended Validation Certificates

2006-11-08 Thread Ian G
Some comments. Heikki Toivonen wrote: Some people have pushed for making SSL errors such that you cannot just click OK and proceed to the site. I'd like to see that happen. The thing that seems to be holding this back is the fear of misconfigured sites becoming inaccessible. In any case,