On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Jan Schejbal <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> I would really love to see the explanation how someone accidentally
> issues and deploys a MitM Sub-CA...
>

I think it will turn out to be essentially the same reason that Microsoft
got burned with the Flame attack.

Just because an organization has PKI expertise does not mean that it is
evenly shared in the organization or that everyone understands what the
constraints are.

The organization does not have managing crypto as its primary goal so the
processes that manage the CA do not include awareness of current crypto
affairs as a requirement.

I have similar concerns about DANE. The expectations that are placed on the
registries and registrars are quite interesting.

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