Re: Fwd: Has any public CA ever had their certificate revoked?

2009-05-12 Thread Frank Hecker
Paul Hoffman wrote: Peter Gutmann asked on a different mailing list: Subject says it all, does anyone know of a public, commercial CA (meaning one baked into a browser or the OS, including any sub-CA's hanging off the roots) ever having their certificate revoked? An ongoing private poll

Re: Fwd: Has any public CA ever had their certificate revoked?

2009-05-12 Thread Nelson B Bolyard
Frank Hecker wrote, On 2009-05-12 11:32: Paul Hoffman wrote: Peter Gutmann asked on a different mailing list: Subject says it all, does anyone know of a public, commercial CA (meaning one baked into a browser or the OS, including any sub-CA's hanging off the roots) ever having their

Re: Fwd: Has any public CA ever had their certificate revoked?

2009-05-12 Thread Eddy Nigg
On 05/12/2009 09:45 PM, Nelson B Bolyard: Was Peter referring to the general requestion of a public CA having its root removed from a browser for whatever reason? Or was he specifically referring to a public CA having a root key compromised and thus having the root revoked? Frank, As I

Re: Fwd: Has any public CA ever had their certificate revoked?

2009-05-04 Thread Ian G
On 3/5/09 15:32, Ben Bucksch wrote: On 03.05.2009 09:06, Ian G wrote: (5) possibly as consequence of all the above, it can be claimed that it is an empty threat, and no more than a security/marketing tool for PKI people. Consequently, we need to either: * Make that threat not empty This is

Re: Fwd: Has any public CA ever had their certificate revoked?

2009-05-04 Thread Ian G
On 3/5/09 15:43, Eddy Nigg wrote: On 05/03/2009 10:06 AM, Ian G: (2), there exists a standard need in audits to discuss disaster recovery. Curiously, this does not appear to be documented anywhere, draw your own speculations It's usually addressed in internal CA documentations and

Re: Fwd: Has any public CA ever had their certificate revoked?

2009-05-04 Thread Eddy Nigg
On 05/04/2009 09:12 AM, Ian G: On 3/5/09 15:43, Eddy Nigg wrote: That's not entirely correct, legacy CAs which requested EV enabled had to go through the process as if they were new roots. See also the current thread of Verizon/Cybertrust. Ah! Well corrected. I did not know that. Are you

Re: Fwd: Has any public CA ever had their certificate revoked?

2009-05-03 Thread Ian G
On 2/5/09 17:50, Paul Hoffman wrote: Peter Gutmann asked on a different mailing list: Subject says it all, does anyone know of a public, commercial CA (meaning one baked into a browser or the OS, including any sub-CA's hanging off the roots) ever having their certificate revoked? An ongoing

Re: Fwd: Has any public CA ever had their certificate revoked?

2009-05-03 Thread Eddy Nigg
On 05/03/2009 10:06 AM, Ian G: (2), there exists a standard need in audits to discuss disaster recovery. Curiously, this does not appear to be documented anywhere, draw your own speculations It's usually addressed in internal CA documentations and audited accordingly. Disaster

Re: Fwd: Has any public CA ever had their certificate revoked?

2009-05-03 Thread Michael Ströder
Ben Bucksch wrote: FWIW, I have removed Comodo from my browser's roots, and I have encountered only 2 sites recently which used it, despite going to quite some online shopping sites (SSL part). So did I and I did not encounter any sites I accessed since then being affected by this. Ciao,

Fwd: Has any public CA ever had their certificate revoked?

2009-05-02 Thread Paul Hoffman
Peter Gutmann asked on a different mailing list: Subject says it all, does anyone know of a public, commercial CA (meaning one baked into a browser or the OS, including any sub-CA's hanging off the roots) ever having their certificate revoked? An ongoing private poll hasn't turned up anything,