>> That would just leave us wanting a way to also revoke certs that might
>> have been issued to an illegitimate key. But given the lag that OCSP
>> has, it might be reasonable to just auto-kill those too, since with
>> reasonable automation even a 'normal' key roll-over can probably get
>> new certs deployed before OCSP starts flagging old ones as revoked. 
> I don't think authorizing under a new account key should revoke old
> certs. I think in general we want revocation to be an intentional
> action, or we risk people accidentally taking their own site down.

this is an old problem.  from loss of private keys (yes, one is inclined
to mis-cite darwin) to people creating bogus pgp credentials with my
email address.

i am not aware of a simple reliable in-band solution.  the examples i
know rely on out of band proof of identity.  oob revocation
authentication usually has scaling issues.

randy

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