Re: Proposed NSS wildcard cert acceptance change - any angst?

2007-12-04 Thread Kyle Hamilton
Two short, practical examples, which are gleaned from reality (though I am not at liberty to state of what organizations I speak): One, educational institution. Due to compliance issues with student data being improperly smuggled out of the administration area (in reaction to an audit that found

Re: Proposed NSS wildcard cert acceptance change - any angst?

2007-12-04 Thread Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)
Hi Kyle, I'm reading your mail now for the third time, but somehow I fail to understandSpecially the thing about "Businesses/organizations need to be able to enforce their policies". Could you give me a short, practical example how the proposal from Nelson would break things and make it i

Re: Proposed NSS wildcard cert acceptance change - any angst?

2007-12-04 Thread Robert Relyea
Kyle Hamilton wrote: We don't know exactly what rules they enforce. We know that they permit only a single '*', and do not permit any of the other forms of so-called regular expressions that are presently recognized by NSS. We don't know if they require any minimum number of dots to the right

Re: Proposed NSS wildcard cert acceptance change - any angst?

2007-12-04 Thread Kyle Hamilton
On Dec 4, 2007 4:20 PM, Nelson B Bolyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gervase Markham wrote, On 2007-12-04 14:44: > > Nelson Bolyard wrote: > >> Now, there is a request asking that NSS's code for matching the > >> application's desired host names to the names in the cert adopt the more > >> restric

Re: Proposed NSS wildcard cert acceptance change - any angst?

2007-12-04 Thread Nelson B Bolyard
Gervase Markham wrote, On 2007-12-04 14:44: > Nelson Bolyard wrote: >> Now, there is a request asking that NSS's code for matching the >> application's desired host names to the names in the cert adopt the more >> restricting IETF standards, and the NSS team wholeheartedly agrees. > > What is the

Re: TURKTRUST root CA certificate inclusion request

2007-12-04 Thread Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)
Hi Gerv, Gervase Markham wrote: > How did a discussion about avoiding homograph spoofing turn into a > suggestion that we only allow Latin characters? > Did you follow the thread actually? But I'd suggest we move this discussion to a new thread since it's not related to this inclusion request

Re: TURKTRUST root CA certificate inclusion request

2007-12-04 Thread Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)
Hi Mert Özarar, Mert Özarar (TÜRKTRUST) wrote: > Our English website (beta version) is ready and have been uploaded > under domain. http://www.turktrust.com.tr/e/ is the current URL... Very nice, congratulations on that! > "http://www.turktrust.com.tr/e/en51.jsp"; gives the current trust > hiera

Re: Proposed NSS wildcard cert acceptance change - any angst?

2007-12-04 Thread Gervase Markham
Nelson Bolyard wrote: > Now, there is a request asking that NSS's code for matching the > application's desired host names to the names in the cert adopt the more > restricting IETF standards, and the NSS team wholeheartedly agrees. What is the rationale for the request? Does it increase security

Re: Some more CA infrastructure questions

2007-12-04 Thread Gervase Markham
C.J. Adams-Collier wrote: > Organization contact information; certificate of authenticity; certifying > body; name, birth date, governmental ID, blood type, gender of all > personnel; you know... the usual :) We have some of this - see the list. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/certs/pendi

Re: TURKTRUST root CA certificate inclusion request

2007-12-04 Thread Gervase Markham
Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) wrote: > Pure ASCII / Latin characters would do...do we need a spec for that? How did a discussion about avoiding homograph spoofing turn into a suggestion that we only allow Latin characters? That's entirely unreasonable. We've spent years working on things like IDN t

Re: TURKTRUST root CA certificate inclusion request

2007-12-04 Thread Mert Özarar (TÜRKTRUST)
dear All, Once again thank you very much for your ideas, efforts and support for our case. We are quite delighted with the overall performance of this group and decided to follow up other topics in the group as well to increase our knowledge and experience on the target subjects to add value on ou

new website in English, explanations to doubts on fuzzy subjects

2007-12-04 Thread Mert Özarar (TÜRKTRUST)
dear All, Once again thank you very much for your ideas, efforts and support for our case. We are quite delighted with the overall performance of this group and decided to follow up other topics in the group as well to increase our knowledge and experience on the target subjects to add value on ou