RE: Questions about Potentially Problematic Practices

2009-03-19 Thread Varga Viktor
-bounces+varga_v=netlock...@lists.mozilla.org] On Behalf Of Varga Viktor Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 8:15 PM To: mozilla's crypto code discussion list Subject: RE: Questions about Potentially Problematic Practices > Will be then the multiple OCSP inclusion? (This time ok, the soft

RE: Questions about Potentially Problematic Practices

2009-03-19 Thread Varga Viktor
> Will be then the multiple OCSP inclusion? (This time ok, the software can > only check the first, but later the others too.) Yes, including multiples of these things won't hurt. Firefox won't crash or refuse to connect because multiple URIs for these things exist. It will just ignore som

Re: Questions about Potentially Problematic Practices

2009-03-18 Thread Nelson B Bolyard
Varga Viktor wrote, On 2009-03-18 06:07: > Will be then the multiple OCSP inclusion? (This time ok, the software can > only check the first, but later the others too.) Yes, including multiples of these things won't hurt. Firefox won't crash or refuse to connect because multiple URIs for these th

RE: Questions about Potentially Problematic Practices

2009-03-18 Thread Varga Viktor
I agree completely. The RFC does not exclude it. It's not a bad idea. > Does the Firefox handle it? Alas, no. I believe it always uses the first one it finds in the cert, and only that. Will be then the multiple OCSP inclusion? (This time ok, the software can only check the first, but later

Re: Questions about Potentially Problematic Practices

2009-03-18 Thread Eddy Nigg
On 03/18/2009 12:57 PM, Nelson B Bolyard: CDP is different, in numerous ways and for numerous reasons. Today, Firefox does not do fetching of certs based on CDP, but that is being implemented now, and I expect it will try potentially all DPs until it gets an acceptable answer or exhausts the list

Re: Questions about Potentially Problematic Practices

2009-03-18 Thread Nelson B Bolyard
Varga Viktor wrote, On 2009-03-09 06:12: > Multiple caIssuers and OCSP in AIA field, multiple CDP: > > The RFC 5280 doesn’t exclude to have multiple OCSP and caIssuers field > in the AIA. It is good for redundancy, for example to have two OCSP > responder, when one of th

Multiple CAIssuer and OCSP in AIA field (previously: Questions about Potentially Problematic Practices)

2009-03-17 Thread Varga Viktor
Dear readers, Previously i drop a mail about three question, and I got answer ont he OCSP multiple request quiestion. Other were not answered, so I cutted one part of it out, and posted it again. I would like to know, how the Firefox (NSS) handle this case: Multiple caIssuers and OCSP in AIA f

RE: SV: Questions about Potentially Problematic Practices

2009-03-11 Thread Varga Viktor
-bounces+varga_v=netlock...@lists.mozilla.org] On Behalf Of Nelson Bolyard Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 10:31 AM To: dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org Subject: Re: SV: Questions about Potentially Problematic Practices Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote, On 2009-03-10 04:55: > Peter Lind Damkjær wr

Re: SV: Questions about Potentially Problematic Practices

2009-03-11 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote, On 2009-03-10 04:55: > Peter Lind Damkjær wrote: >> Varga Viktor wrote: >>> >>> OCSP request with multiple certificate from different CA >>> -- >>> >>> The RFC has the possibility to send multiple certificate serial number into >>> OCSP request. It is not de

RE: SV: Questions about Potentially Problematic Practices

2009-03-10 Thread Varga Viktor
...@lists.mozilla.org [mailto:dev-tech-crypto-bounces+varga_v=netlock...@lists.mozilla.org] On Behalf Of Jean-Marc Desperrier Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 12:55 PM To: dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org Subject: Re: SV: Questions about Potentially Problematic Practices Peter Lind Damkjær wrote: > Varga Vik

Re: SV: Questions about Potentially Problematic Practices

2009-03-10 Thread Jean-Marc Desperrier
Peter Lind Damkjær wrote: Varga Viktor wrote: > OCSP request with multiple certificate from different CA -- The RFC has the possibility to send multiple certificate serial number into OCSP request. It is not defined that allowed or not, to put two certificate > serial number, fr

SV: Questions about Potentially Problematic Practices

2009-03-10 Thread Peter Lind Damkjær
Varga Viktor wrote: OCSP request with multiple certificate from different CA -- The RFC has the possibility to send multiple certificate serial number into OCSP request. It is not defined that allowed or not, to put two certificate serial number, from different CA. Request

Questions about Potentially Problematic Practices

2009-03-09 Thread Varga Viktor
I put the following questions on my bug at: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480966 There was mentioned to post here. The first two is mainly technical, the last is affected by the CA policy. Multiple caIssuers and OCSP in AIA field, multiple CDP: The RFC 5

Re: Problematic Practices

2008-06-13 Thread David E. Ross
On 6/12/2008 4:46 PM, Wan-Teh Chang wrote [in part]: > If a company or school needs to issue a lot of certs to its internal > servers, what is the recommended practice? I always thought the > organization should operate an intermediate CA subordinate to a > root CA. Isn't that the hierarchical m

Re: Problematic Practices

2008-06-12 Thread Frank Hecker
Wan-Teh Chang wrote: > That page lists "Allowing external entities to operate subordinate CAs" > as a problematic practice. I think that a better title for that page would be "potentially problematic practices". This is not really a binary "good" vs. "bad

Re: Problematic Practices

2008-06-12 Thread Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)
Wan-Teh Chang: That page lists "Allowing external entities to operate subordinate CAs" as a problematic practice. If a company or school needs to issue a lot of certs to its internal servers, what is the recommended practice? I always thought the organization should operate an intermediate CA s

Re: Problematic Practices

2008-06-12 Thread Wan-Teh Chang
2008/6/12 Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I found that Frank created http://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:Problematic_Practices > and Kathleen has started to ask questions also relating to those practices > during here information gathering and reviews. That page lists "Allowing external en

Problematic Practices

2008-06-12 Thread Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)
I found that Frank created http://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:Problematic_Practices and Kathleen has started to ask questions also relating to those practices during here information gathering and reviews. I think this to be a very positive development and apparently Kathleen has started to do a good a