Re: Paper on "unused" root certs

2014-04-13 Thread Michael Ströder
Erwann Abalea wrote: > In the list, some root certificates belong to active certificate issuers > (but with different roots), so there's little security risks (I believe an > active issuer protects all its keys the same way). Erwann, I think the opposite is true: Given the fact that there were a b

Re: Paper on "unused" root certs

2014-03-25 Thread Rob Stradling
On 25/03/14 12:20, Rob Stradling wrote: On 24/03/14 18:57, Erwann Abalea wrote: The list contains root CAs that are only used for email, some that deliver Qualified Certificates, others that haven't been used yet (such as some ECC ones) I bet their scanner didn't offer any ECDH(E) ciphers.

Re: Paper on "unused" root certs

2014-03-25 Thread Rob Stradling
On 24/03/14 18:57, Erwann Abalea wrote: The list contains root CAs that are only used for email, some that deliver Qualified Certificates, others that haven't been used yet (such as some ECC ones) I bet their scanner didn't offer any ECDH(E) ciphers. There aren't many ECC certs out there ye

Re: Paper on "unused" root certs

2014-03-24 Thread Erwann Abalea
Bonjour, The list can be found at http://www.heise.de/downloads/18/1/1/8/8/4/3/5/bogo-ca.csv Le lundi 24 mars 2014 16:03:26 UTC+1, Gervase Markham a écrit : > "You Won't Be Needing These Any More: On Removing Unused Certificates > From Trust Stores" > > http://fc14.ifca.ai/papers/fc14_submiss

Paper on "unused" root certs

2014-03-24 Thread Gervase Markham
"You Won’t Be Needing These Any More: On Removing Unused Certificates From Trust Stores" http://fc14.ifca.ai/papers/fc14_submission_100.pdf I believe there are some errors in it, like the "1500 CAs and 650 organizations" one. The biggest error is probably the suggestion that the Mozilla trust