Expiration of trust roots

2007-03-13 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 11:40 AM -0700 3/13/07, Bob Relyea wrote: In addition, we only parse these kinds of constraints on intermediate certs (we currently don't have a mechanism to place name constraints on a trusted root. Even if the trusted root had constraints itself, they would be ignored once we identify the

Re: Restricting roots to one TLD

2007-03-13 Thread Bob Relyea
Frank Hecker wrote: Wan-Teh Chang wrote: Gervase Markham wrote: I am interested in investigating with the NSS developers whether it would be possible to restrict a particular root certificate to signing end entity certificates only for domains with a particular TLD. In this context Gerv

Re: Restricting roots to one TLD

2007-03-13 Thread Gervase Markham
Frank Hecker wrote: > Of course using name constraints in the classic sense requires the cooperation of the CA (since they have to add the extension to the CA cert). I think Gerv was thinking of the more general case where for policy reasons we might want to impose constraints on a CA even in t