Re: Updating Mozilla CA certificate policy to address EV certificates

2007-10-11 Thread srdavidson
Note that a parallel discussion is at mozilla.dev.tech.crypto. ___ dev-security mailing list dev-security@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security

Updating Mozilla CA certificate policy to address EV certificates

2007-10-09 Thread Frank Hecker
I've filed a bug against myself (399214) to update the current Mozilla CA certificate policy to address the issue of extended validation certificates. Part of that process involves public discussion of exactly what changes need to be made. Here are some quick thoughts of my own; note that

Re: Updating Mozilla CA certificate policy to address EV certificates

2007-10-09 Thread Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)
Frank, thanks for addressing this issue! Frank Hecker wrote: As noted in the bug, I think an EV-enabled root CA cert is simply a special case of root CA certs in general, so we don't need a whole new separate policy. At the same time I don't want to revise every section of the existing