Hi Dan,
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thank you for the info. And a good point.
Tobias


On 23/05/13 03:43, Daniel Veditz wrote:
> On 5/22/2013 3:29 PM, Trevor Perrin wrote:
>> The draft discusses "Preloaded Pin Lists", which are presumably conveyed
>> to the UA from some 3rd party (eg browser vendor).  It seems reasonable
>> for such lists to be created or kept fresh by scanning web sites.  I
>> believe Mozilla is taking this approach to HSTS [1].
>
> Note that Mozilla currently requires sites to specify an HSTS pinning
> time of at least 18 WEEKS to be included in the pre-load list. There
> was concern that sites with shorter pins could have stopped using HSTS
> by time that version of the browser shipped. I personally think that's
> a little strict, but even if we relaxed the requirement to the length
> of a Beta cycle that's still a longer period of time (6 weeks) than
> the maximum 30 days you're suggesting.
>
> This has no direct bearing of whether 30 days is a reasonable max
> pinning length, but I doubt Mozilla would ship a pre-loaded list if
> the lifetime was so short that pins would have expired by time the
> user gets it.
>
> -Dan Veditz
>
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