Re: Policy Update Proposal: Remove Code Signing Trust Bit

2015-10-13 Thread Peter Kurrasch
I can't think of a case either. What I'm advocating would be an expansion of Mozilla's role in the security space--something that may or may not be appropriate for me to do, with pros and cons either way.

Policy Update Proposal -- Remove Email Trust Bit

2015-10-13 Thread Kathleen Wilson
All, Many people have contacted me because they heard that Mozilla is considering removing the Email trust bit, and they ask that we keep the Email trust bit because they use the root certs in Mozilla's root store (NSS) with the Email trust bit enabled in current and future

Symantec Test Cert Misissuance Incident

2015-10-13 Thread Kathleen Wilson
In September of this year, the CA Symantec revealed[0] that they had mis-issued a number of certificates for domains that they did not own or control, for testing purposes. After an “exhaustive review”, they issued a Final Report[1] which documented 23 such certificates. Yesterday, Symantec

Re: Policy Update Proposal -- Remove Email Trust Bit

2015-10-13 Thread R Kent James
Great job description, Kathleen, and thanks for working toward keeping this technical capability available. I have some questions about the financial aspects of this, or if there is a better place to discuss this issue please redirect me. Obviously have a "resource" implies that there is

Re: Policy Update Proposal -- Remove Email Trust Bit

2015-10-13 Thread Gervase Markham
On 13/10/15 19:39, R Kent James wrote: > Obviously have a "resource" implies that there is funding needed to > support this. My understanding is that in many cases, there is a cost to > certificate providers to have their certificates included in a root > store, that is applied to the expense of

Re: Policy Update Proposal -- Remove Email Trust Bit

2015-10-13 Thread David E. Ross
On 10/13/2015 8:04 AM, Kathleen Wilson wrote: > All, > > Many people have contacted me because they heard that Mozilla is > considering removing the Email trust bit, and they ask that we keep the > Email trust bit because they use the root certs in Mozilla's root store > (NSS) with the Email

Re: Symantec Test Cert Misissuance Incident

2015-10-13 Thread Michael Colburn
Symantec's gone and updated [2] and [4] and both of those links are 404ing now. Updated links: [2] https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/sites/default/files/Test_Certificates_Incident_Final_Report_10_13_2015v3.pdf [4]