Re: Netcraft blog, violations of CABF Baseline Requirements, any consequences?

2013-10-25 Thread Brian Smith
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Rick Andrews wrote: > I agree with Jeremy that there are security benefits to revocation checking, > even without hard-fail, and that they are not illusions. If a CA can serve an > OCSP response to a browser before the browser gives up, the user may be > alerted

Re: Netcraft blog, violations of CABF Baseline Requirements, any consequences?

2013-10-25 Thread Eddy Nigg
On 10/25/2013 11:47 PM, From Rick Andrews: A number of CAs have been actively working to improve the performance of their CA infrastructures, and have made significant improvements. For reference: https://revocation-report.x509labs.com/ ( just that the cert expired there :-) ) -- Regards

Re: Netcraft blog, violations of CABF Baseline Requirements, any consequences?

2013-10-25 Thread Rick Andrews
> Yes, surely only someone insidious and evil and who hates Freedom would > > ever support such an security-hostile idea as a 1-4KB OCSP response, > > rather than a 50MB CRL. It's likely that the Legion of Cryptographic Doom > > have compromised OCSP, likely using the World Bank to infiltrate t