I don't disagree with the idea that CAs+DANE provides a greater barrier for
HTTPS domain impersonation than just DANE.  But...

On 30 May 2013 04:09, Christian Heutger <[email protected]> wrote:

> the instant revoke with CRL and OCSP
> (against caching DNS)


I don't agree with this.  Revocation through TTL expiry on a domain can
provide the same revocation delay as CRLs and OCSP.  CRLs have a "window of
replay" up to a week, OCSP from 6 hours to a day (usually).  TTLs are in
the same ballpark, and are configurable.


> like recent mentioned phishing attacks.


As part of my job I run phishing attacks on companies, fairly regularly.
 While most CAs do a decent job of protecting against the highest-profile
domains, obtaining a DV cert for the other 99.9% of companies is never a
problem.  A long lived or extremely popular phishing attack may get
detected in time to protect some users, but a single-day or two-operation
does not.  This is an advantage of CAs, but not a large one due to the lack
of protections supplied for 99.9% of companies, the fact that all CAs are
trusted equally so I can go to the weakest one, and that there is a natural
desire for CAs to issue certificates fast and only flag certificates for
manual review if absolutely necessary.


> In
> addition with SMTP over TLS running mail servers, the assumption would be,
> that it is a valid mail server. If everyone can go with SMTP over TLS,
> giving more trust to valid SMTP connections will be undergone.
>

PKIX Validation + SMTP is all sorts of wonky.  I'm just throwing it out
there ;)


On 30 May 2013 03:37, Jakob Schlyter <[email protected]> wrote:

> Unless the chairs do not object, I believe this mailing list is a good
> place to discuss this matters.


I'll occasionally join in if the consensus is to allow this type of
discussion, but unless it's directly related to a standard we're working on
or implementing, I don't really think this type of conversation is
productive at this point.  These arguments and debates have been hashed and
rehashed over and over.  There is a difference of opinion, and people feel
strongly on both sides.  Civil discussion is fine, but a lot of people are
tired of the topic, so the level of civility and interest is decreasing -
making the conversations less enlightening as time goes on.

-tom
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