I would suggest requiring all new roots approved to state that they do
not and will not use MD5 in any newly-minted certificate (except
possibly in a configuration like the TLS pseudo-random function).

This is not yet policy, though it should be.  (FWIW, this was known
two years ago.)

-Kyle H

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 8:39 AM, Chris Hills <c...@chaz6.com> wrote:
> A presentation was given at this year's Chaos Communication Congress in
> which it was described how researchers were apparently able to produce
> authentic signed SSL certificates thanks to a handful of CAs who rely on
> MD5. If true, is it time to disable MD5 by default?
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