On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 9:34 AM Yoav Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:

> What deprecation/removal timelines did you have in mind?
>

Since there's no user-visible impact, I was hoping to do a console message
in M105 and then remove in M106.

>
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 6:31 PM Emily Stark <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Contact [email protected]
>>
>> ExplainerNone
>>
>> Specificationhttps://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9163
>>
>> Summary
>>
>> Expect-CT is an HTTP header that allowed websites to opt in to
>> Certificate Transparency enforcement before it was enforced by default. It
>> also has reporting functionality to help developers discover CT
>> misconfigurations.
>>
>>
>> Blink componentInternals>Network>DomainSecurityPolicy
>> <https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?q=component:Internals%3ENetwork%3EDomainSecurityPolicy>
>>
>> Motivation
>>
>> Expect-CT was designed to help transition to universal Certificate
>> Transparency (CT) enforcement, by allowing high-value websites to opt in to
>> CT enforcement/reporting for better security before CT enforcement was
>> required (by Chrome) on all public websites. However, Expect-CT has now
>> outlived its usefulness. Chrome requires CT on all public websites now, so
>> there is no security value to Expect-CT anymore. Expect-CT was also
>> designed to help site owners discover CT-related misconfigurations;
>> however, now that CT is universally required, CT is generally configured in
>> websites' certificates by certificate authorities and virtually never
>> configured by individual site owners, thus Expect-CT has very limited value
>> as a misconfiguration/debugging tool anymore either. No other browser has
>> implemented Expect-CT so removing it is not an interoperability concern.
>>
>>
>> Initial public proposal
>> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/tgn5R-58iek/m/Q6YCnu0RFQAJ
>>
>> TAG reviewn/a
>>
>> TAG review statusNot applicable
>>
>> Risks
>>
>>
>> Interoperability and Compatibility
>>
>>
>> No other browser has implemented Expect-CT or given signals that they
>> intend to (to my knowledge). Expect-CT is not user-visible so removing the
>> feature has no compatibility risk. Developers who are currently sending the
>> header should stop doing so just to save the bytes on the wire.
>>
>> While the header is served on a large percent of requests (~6%), this is
>> likely due to a small number of large providers that can be informed of the
>> deprecation via 1:1 outreach.
>>
>
> Are you planning to wait for usage to drop as a result of this outreach?
> Or are you fairly confident that removing will not break content due to
> some weird server side reliance on the header?
>

I would be very very surprised if the removal caused any breakage, so I
think we can go ahead with the removal without waiting for usage to drop.
The outreach is really just a heads-up to allow websites to save some bytes
on serving the header and turn down any infrastructure they have in place
for receiving reports, but the feature is essentially a no-op right now so
removing it shouldn't cause any breakage.


>
>
>> As described above, the header serves no security value any longer,
>> removing it will have no user-visible effects, and the header provides
>> extremely minimal debugging value to developers since developers are no
>> longer responsible for serving their own CT information (100.00% of
>> requests serve CT information directly embedded in the certificate, which
>> developers are not responsible for configuring).
>>
>> *Gecko*: No signal
>>
>> *WebKit*: No signal
>>
>> *Web developers*: No signals
>>
>> *Other signals*:
>>
>> WebView application risks
>>
>> Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such that
>> it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications?
>>
>>
>>
>> Debuggability
>>
>> We'll add a console message informing developers that the header will/has
>> no effect and they should remove it.
>>
>> Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests
>> <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/testing/web_platform_tests.md>
>> ?No
>>
>> Flag name
>>
>> Requires code in //chrome?False
>>
>> Estimated milestones
>>
>> No milestones specified
>>
>>
>> Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status
>> https://chromestatus.com/feature/6244547273687040
>>
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