RE: Comodo request for EV-enabling 3 existing roots

2008-03-28 Thread Robin Alden
Eddy, > > [Robin said...] > > Our main current objection to them is on grounds of maintaining a level > > commercial playing field among all CAs (in the Mozilla root program). > > > Robin, just for your knowledge that most if not all CAs which have roots > in NSS, are commercial CAs. Most, if not a

Re: Comodo request for EV-enabling 3 existing roots

2008-03-28 Thread Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)
Robin Alden: > [Robin said...] > If I understand you correctly you are saying that considering lack of > evidence to the contrary you believe that Comodo is solely responsible for > lowering the standard of DV certificate issuance in these two respects? > > You are probably more familiar with our

Re: KISA root CA certificate inclusion request

2008-03-28 Thread Frank Hecker
Frank Hecker wrote: > Korea Certification Authority Central (KCAC) of the Korean Information > Security Administration (KISA) has applied to add three root CA > certificates to the Mozilla root store, as documented in the following bug: > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335197

Re: KISA root CA certificate inclusion request

2008-03-28 Thread Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)
Frank Hecker: > Frank Hecker wrote: > >> Korea Certification Authority Central (KCAC) of the Korean Information >> Security Administration (KISA) has applied to add three root CA >> certificates to the Mozilla root store, as documented in the following bug: >> >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org

Audit requirements for government CAs

2008-03-28 Thread Frank Hecker
As I implied in my previous message about the KISA request for inclusion of its roots, government CAs can pose special problems in the context of our current Mozilla CA policy, and I wanted to take the opportunity to discuss the topic briefly, since we may want to consider future changes to our

Re: KISA root CA certificate inclusion request

2008-03-28 Thread Frank Hecker
Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) wrote: > I think the question raised with that CA was also, if the audit covers > the whole CA infrastructure, i.e. all different independent CAs > operating under the KISA root. If I remember right, the CPS has no > provision in that respect and the audit covers only K

Re: KISA root CA certificate inclusion request

2008-03-28 Thread Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)
Frank Hecker: > Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) wrote: > >> I think the question raised with that CA was also, if the audit covers >> the whole CA infrastructure, i.e. all different independent CAs >> operating under the KISA root. If I remember right, the CPS has no >> provision in that respect an

Re: KISA root CA certificate inclusion request

2008-03-28 Thread Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)
Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.): > KISA is a CA authorized and commissioned by the their government, > however the operating CAs are not government CAs, but regular CAs with > commercial interests etc. So this makes it a bit tricky I think... I forgot to add, that there is a difference between a CA co