Re: Question about pathlen extension checked

2011-09-20 Thread Ralph Holz (TUM)
Hi, Thanks for the replies, it's very much appreciated. It takes careful reading of RFC 3280 if you don't want to miss the crucial distinction between intermediate certificate on the path and certificate on the path - thanks for the highlighting. My conclusion from all this is that the many

RE: Question about pathlen extension checked

2011-09-20 Thread Ryan Sleevi
My reading of RFC 3280/5280 and from implementation experience with NSS, CryptoAPI, OpenSSL, and other implementations is that no, that is not correct. CA:TRUE with a pathlen:0 is conformant to RFCs 3280/5280. The most common cause for this would be for a CA certifying an intermediate, but that

Re: Restricting which CAs can issue certs for which hostnames

2011-09-20 Thread Nelson B
On 2011/09/01 06:12 PDT, Sean Leonard wrote: Looks like there is some discussion on mozilla.dev.security; I wanted to respond from more of an NSS point of view. On 8/30/2011 9:46 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: I was looking at our CA root list, and a lot of them seem like specialist CAs that