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