RE: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates

2020-03-17 Thread Jeremy Rowley via dev-security-policy
To: Kathleen Wilson ; Mozilla Subject: RE: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates > On 3/11/20 3:51 PM, Paul Walsh wrote: > > Can you provide some insight to why you think a shorter frequency in > domain validation would be beneficial? > > To start with, it is common

Re: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates

2020-03-17 Thread Kathleen Wilson via dev-security-policy
Thanks to all of you who have participated in this discussion. We plan to begin work on a minor update (version 2.7.1) to Mozilla's Root Store Policy soon. In response to this discussion, the following two issues have been created and labelled for 2.7.1. Wayne filed

RE: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates

2020-03-17 Thread Tim Hollebeek via dev-security-policy
> On 3/11/20 3:51 PM, Paul Walsh wrote: > > Can you provide some insight to why you think a shorter frequency in > domain validation would be beneficial? > > To start with, it is common for a domain name to be purchased for one year. > A certificate owner that was able to prove ownership/control

Re: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates

2020-03-17 Thread Andrew Ayer via dev-security-policy
On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 15:39:34 -0700 Kathleen Wilson via dev-security-policy wrote: > What do you all think about also limiting the re-use of domain > validation? I'm strongly in favor of this change, and think domain validation reuse should eventually be limited to a period much shorter than one

Re: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates

2020-03-16 Thread Ryan Sleevi via dev-security-policy
On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 11:13 AM Doug Beattie wrote: > For clarity, I think we need to discuss all the knobs along with proposed > effective dates and usage periods so we get the whole picture. > I disagree with this framing, as I have pointed out it's been repeatedly used disingenuously by

RE: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates

2020-03-16 Thread Doug Beattie via dev-security-policy
16, 2020 10:27 AM To: Doug Beattie Cc: r...@sleevi.com; Kathleen Wilson ; mozilla-dev-security-pol...@lists.mozilla.org Subject: Re: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates No, I don't think we should assume anything, since it doesn't say anything about lifetime :) The value

Re: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates

2020-03-16 Thread Ryan Sleevi via dev-security-policy
> > *From:* Ryan Sleevi > *Sent:* Monday, March 16, 2020 10:02 AM > *To:* Doug Beattie > *Cc:* r...@sleevi.com; Kathleen Wilson ; > mozilla-dev-security-pol...@lists.mozilla.org > *Subject:* Re: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates > > > > Hi Doug, > >

RE: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates

2020-03-16 Thread Doug Beattie via dev-security-policy
Are we to assume that the maximum certificate validity remains at 398 days? From: Ryan Sleevi Sent: Monday, March 16, 2020 10:02 AM To: Doug Beattie Cc: r...@sleevi.com; Kathleen Wilson ; mozilla-dev-security-pol...@lists.mozilla.org Subject: Re: About upcoming limits on trusted

Re: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates

2020-03-16 Thread Ryan Sleevi via dev-security-policy
Hi Doug, Perhaps it got mangled by your mail client, but I think I had that covered? I've pasted it again, below. Counter proposal: April 2021: 395 day domain validation max April 2021: 366 day organization validation max April 2022: 92 day domain validation max September 2022: 31 day domain

RE: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates

2020-03-16 Thread Doug Beattie via dev-security-policy
Wilson ; mozilla-dev-security-pol...@lists.mozilla.org Subject: Re: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 2:38 PM Doug Beattie via dev-security-policy mailto:dev-security-policy@lists.mozilla.org> > wrote: When we moved to SHA2 knew of security ri

Re: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates

2020-03-16 Thread Gijs Kruitbosch via dev-security-policy
On 14/03/2020 18:53, Nick Lamb wrote: my assumption is that at best such a patch would be in the big pile of volunteer stuff maybe nobody has time to look at. Tangential: perhaps there's an aspect of phrasing here that is confusing me, but this reads to me as suggesting we don't review/work

Re: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates

2020-03-14 Thread Ryan Sleevi via dev-security-policy
On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 2:54 PM Nick Lamb via dev-security-policy < dev-security-policy@lists.mozilla.org> wrote: > On Thu, 5 Mar 2020 14:15:17 + > Nick Lamb via dev-security-policy > wrote: > > > There is some value in policy alone but there's also substantial > > independent value in

Re: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates

2020-03-14 Thread Nick Lamb via dev-security-policy
On Thu, 5 Mar 2020 14:15:17 + Nick Lamb via dev-security-policy wrote: > There is some value in policy alone but there's also substantial > independent value in writing the policy into the code. Would Mozilla > accept third party work to implement something like #908125 ? I > appreciate you

Re: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates

2020-03-13 Thread Ryan Sleevi via dev-security-policy
On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 2:38 PM Doug Beattie via dev-security-policy < dev-security-policy@lists.mozilla.org> wrote: > When we moved to SHA2 knew of security risks so the timeline could be > justified, however, I don’t see the same pressing need to move to annual > domain revalidation and 1 year

Re: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates

2020-03-13 Thread Santhan via dev-security-policy
On Wednesday, March 11, 2020 at 4:11:56 PM UTC-7, Kathleen Wilson wrote: > To start with, it is common for a domain name to be purchased for one > year. A certificate owner that was able to prove ownership/control of > the domain name last year might not have renewed the domain name. So why >

RE: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates

2020-03-13 Thread Doug Beattie via dev-security-policy
ozilla-dev-security-pol...@lists.mozilla.org Subject: Re: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates On 3/12/20 5:52 AM, Doug Beattie wrote: > Changing the domain validation re-user period is a substantial change from > the Apple proposed max validity period change and will place an addi

Re: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates

2020-03-12 Thread Kathleen Wilson via dev-security-policy
On 3/12/20 5:52 AM, Doug Beattie wrote: Changing the domain validation re-user period is a substantial change from the Apple proposed max validity period change and will place an additional burden on certificate Applicants to update their domain validation more than twice as frequently.

Re: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates

2020-03-12 Thread Ryan Sleevi via dev-security-policy
On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 10:58 AM Jeremy Rowley wrote: > I think this statement is not accurate: "As a result, CAs don’t pursue > automation, or when they support it, neither promote nor require it." I > know very few CAs who want to spend extra resources on manual validations > and just as few

RE: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates

2020-03-12 Thread Jeremy Rowley via dev-security-policy
Sleevi via dev-security-policy Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2020 7:30 AM To: Julien Cristau Cc: Mozilla ; Kathleen Wilson Subject: Re: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates The Baseline Requirements allow a number of methods that aren’t easily automated, such as validation via email. A

Re: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates

2020-03-12 Thread Ryan Sleevi via dev-security-policy
The Baseline Requirements allow a number of methods that aren’t easily automated, such as validation via email. As a result, CAs don’t pursue automation, or when they support it, neither promote nor require it. This leads CAs to be opposed to efforts to shorten the reuse time, as they have

RE: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates

2020-03-12 Thread Doug Beattie via dev-security-policy
: dev-security-policy On Behalf Of Kathleen Wilson via dev-security-policy Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 8:29 PM To: mozilla-dev-security-pol...@lists.mozilla.org Subject: Re: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates On 3/11/20 4:37 PM, Paul Walsh wrote: > >> On Mar 11, 2020, a

Re: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates

2020-03-12 Thread Julien Cristau via dev-security-policy
Hi Kathleen, all, Is there a reason domain validation information needs to be reused for more than, say, 30 days? For the manual parts of identity validation I understand you don't want to repeat the process too often, but domain validation can be entirely automated so it doesn't seem like long

Re: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates

2020-03-11 Thread Paul Walsh via dev-security-policy
Thanks for the clarification, Kathleen. I tried my best not to make assumptions. - Paul > On Mar 11, 2020, at 5:28 PM, Kathleen Wilson via dev-security-policy > wrote: > > On 3/11/20 4:37 PM, Paul Walsh wrote: On Mar 11, 2020, at 4:11 PM, Kathleen Wilson via dev-security-policy

Re: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates

2020-03-11 Thread Kathleen Wilson via dev-security-policy
On 3/11/20 4:37 PM, Paul Walsh wrote: On Mar 11, 2020, at 4:11 PM, Kathleen Wilson via dev-security-policy wrote: On 3/11/20 3:51 PM, Paul Walsh wrote: Can you provide some insight to why you think a shorter frequency in domain validation would be beneficial? [PW] If the owner’s identity

Re: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates

2020-03-11 Thread Paul Walsh via dev-security-policy
> On Mar 11, 2020, at 4:11 PM, Kathleen Wilson via dev-security-policy > wrote: > > On 3/11/20 3:51 PM, Paul Walsh wrote: >> Can you provide some insight to why you think a shorter frequency in domain >> validation would be beneficial? > > To start with, it is common for a domain name to be

Re: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates

2020-03-11 Thread Kathleen Wilson via dev-security-policy
On 3/11/20 3:51 PM, Paul Walsh wrote: Can you provide some insight to why you think a shorter frequency in domain validation would be beneficial? To start with, it is common for a domain name to be purchased for one year. A certificate owner that was able to prove ownership/control of the

Re: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates

2020-03-11 Thread Paul Walsh via dev-security-policy
Hi Kathleen, Can you provide some insight to why you think a shorter frequency in domain validation would be beneficial? At the very least it deserves a new thread as the potential impact could be significant. And out of curiosity, why not raise your question inside the CA/Browser forum if

Re: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates

2020-03-11 Thread Kathleen Wilson via dev-security-policy
All, First, I would like to say that my preference would have been for this type of change (limit SSL cert validity period to 398 days) to be agreed to in the CA/Browser Forum and added to the BRs. However, the ball is already rolling, and discussion here in m.d.s.p is supportive of updating

Re: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates

2020-03-06 Thread Nicholas Knight via dev-security-policy
On Tuesday, March 3, 2020 at 12:28:20 PM UTC-8, Wayne Thayer wrote: > Thank you for sharing this Clint. > > I'd like to ask for input from the community: is this a requirement that we > should add to the Mozilla policy at this time (effective September 1, 2020)? Of course. And 180 days next

Re: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates

2020-03-05 Thread Nick Lamb via dev-security-policy
On Wed, 4 Mar 2020 16:41:09 -0700 Wayne Thayer via dev-security-policy wrote: > I'm fairly certain that there is no validity period enforcement in > Firefox. The request is > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=908125 I'm also not in a > position to commit Mozilla to technical

Re: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates

2020-03-04 Thread Wayne Thayer via dev-security-policy
On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 11:48 AM Nick Lamb wrote: > On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 13:27:59 -0700 > Wayne Thayer via dev-security-policy > wrote: > > > I'd like to ask for input from the community: is this a requirement > > that we should add to the Mozilla policy at this time (effective > > September 1,

RE: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates

2020-03-04 Thread Doug Beattie via dev-security-policy
Hi Clint, The content of your email, the blog post and the Apple root policy all say something a little different and may leave some room for interpretation by the CAs. As it stands, things are a bit confused. Here's why: Your mail is a little light on the details. While you say this is an

Re: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates

2020-03-04 Thread Nick Lamb via dev-security-policy
On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 13:27:59 -0700 Wayne Thayer via dev-security-policy wrote: > I'd like to ask for input from the community: is this a requirement > that we should add to the Mozilla policy at this time (effective > September 1, 2020)? If Mozilla adds this as a policy requirement it should

Re: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates

2020-03-03 Thread Matt Palmer via dev-security-policy
On Tue, Mar 03, 2020 at 01:53:49PM -0800, Clint Wilson wrote: > On Mar 3, 2020, at 1:41 PM, Matt Palmer via dev-security-policy > wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 03, 2020 at 11:55:24AM -0800, Clint Wilson via > > dev-security-policy wrote: > >> For additional information, please see > >>

Re: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates

2020-03-03 Thread Clint Wilson via dev-security-policy
Hi Matt, This is determined using the notBefore value in the certificate; if the notBefore value is greater than or equal to September 1, 2020 00:00 GMT/UTC, then the updated policy will apply. Cheers, -Clint > On Mar 3, 2020, at 1:41 PM, Matt Palmer via dev-security-policy > wrote: > > On

Re: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates

2020-03-03 Thread Matt Palmer via dev-security-policy
On Tue, Mar 03, 2020 at 01:27:59PM -0700, Wayne Thayer via dev-security-policy wrote: > I'd like to ask for input from the community: is this a requirement that we > should add to the Mozilla policy at this time (effective September 1, 2020)? I don't see any reason not to. - Matt

Re: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates

2020-03-03 Thread Matt Palmer via dev-security-policy
On Tue, Mar 03, 2020 at 11:55:24AM -0800, Clint Wilson via dev-security-policy wrote: > For additional information, please see > https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211025. I have a question regarding this part: > TLS server certificates issued on or after September 1, 2020 00:00 GMT/UTC > must

Re: About upcoming limits on trusted certificates

2020-03-03 Thread Wayne Thayer via dev-security-policy
Thank you for sharing this Clint. I'd like to ask for input from the community: is this a requirement that we should add to the Mozilla policy at this time (effective September 1, 2020)? You may recall that a 398-day maximum validity for TLS certificates was proposed to the CA/Browser Forum by