Re: CABForum place in the world

2009-01-15 Thread Michael Ströder
Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote: Michael Ströder a écrit : [...] A couple of days ago I've received a phishing spam e-mail with a detailed description how to accept the new more secure EV cert of a banking site. Obviously the goal was to trick the user to access a phishing site. I didn't examine

Re: OT: mozilla.org domain ownership

2009-01-15 Thread Johnathan Nightingale
On 14-Jan-09, at 6:06 PM, Ben Bucksch wrote: On 14.01.2009 20:28, Johnathan Nightingale wrote: On 14-Jan-09, at 2:03 PM, Ben Bucksch wrote: Foundation must hold the end of the string that controls it all - both legally (board etc.) and technically (domain ownership, repo backup copy (which

Re: OT: mozilla.org domain ownership

2009-01-15 Thread Ben Bucksch
On 15.01.2009 16:06, Johnathan Nightingale wrote: I see. And what if, given that the foundation is a small entity with few full time employees, they decided to contract out the management of the technical side of things to, e.g., the Mozilla Corporation? They are already doing that. I am not

Re: OCSP and privacy concerns

2009-01-15 Thread Michael Ströder
Johnathan Nightingale wrote: On 9-Jan-09, at 9:38 AM, Michael Ströder wrote: Can OCSP still be disabled? Personally I have strong privacy concerns since when checking for a server cert via OCSP the OCSP responder knows which server you try to access (because the FQDN is in the server cert's

Re: OT: mozilla.org domain ownership

2009-01-15 Thread Reed Loden
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:23:53 +0100 Ben Bucksch ben.bucksch.n...@beonex.com wrote: On 15.01.2009 16:06, Johnathan Nightingale wrote: I see. And what if, given that the foundation is a small entity with few full time employees, they decided to contract out the management of the technical

Re: JSS API for FIPS Self Tests

2009-01-15 Thread Glen Beasley
ksreedha...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 14, 10:21 am, Glen Beasley glen.beas...@sun.com wrote: Sreedhar Kamishetti wrote: Hello, I just started looking at JSS. Can some one point me to the API provided by JSS for running Power Up and Conditional Self Tests for various

Re: CABForum place in the world

2009-01-15 Thread Michael Ströder
Johnathan Nightingale wrote: So, I will make the assertion that at least 80% of our users are not going to benefit from the technical details we include in that error message, and that while we could do another round of wording improvements to try to finesse that, the issue goes deeper. 80%

Re: OCSP and privacy concerns

2009-01-15 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Michael Ströder wrote, On 2009-01-15 08:23: Johnathan Nightingale wrote: You may also be interested in the work on OCSP-stapling, so that no third party learns about your browsing, but you still get a CA-signed OCSP response. The CAs are interested in this too, since it takes the load

Re: Proposal to split this list

2009-01-15 Thread Gervase Markham
Eddy Nigg wrote: On 01/05/2009 01:36 AM, Nelson B Bolyard: 3. I wonder if the non-developer topics are already within the scope of another extant low-traffic list, namely dev-security (a.k.a. mozilla.dev.security), except that I think the new list does not belong in the dev hierarchy.

Re: Proposal to split this list

2009-01-15 Thread Gervase Markham
Nelson B Bolyard wrote: 3. I wonder if the non-developer topics are already within the scope of another extant low-traffic list, namely dev-security (a.k.a. mozilla.dev.security), except that I think the new list does not belong in the dev hierarchy. In an ideal world, it wouldn't, but it

Re: OT: mozilla.org domain ownership

2009-01-15 Thread Ben Bucksch
On 15.01.2009 18:27, Reed Loden wrote: Well, if you really want to go as far as to want mozilla.org's owner to be MoFo, what do you say about the O= in the SSL certificate for *.mozilla.org? The O= is currently Mozilla Corporation, rather than Mozilla Foundation. I don't care, myself. Not