----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kurt Roeckx" <[email protected]>
> To: "Hubert Kario" <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Sent: Friday, July 4, 2014 7:23:08 PM
> Subject: Re: Removal of 1024 bit CA roots - interoperability
> 
> On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 09:27:49AM -0400, Hubert Kario wrote:
> > Interestingly, some intermediate CA certificates that were originally
> > signed by those 1024 bit CA certificates got cross signed using
> > different roots that will remain trusted[2]. In particular I mean the
> > "USERTrust Legacy Secure Server CA" certificate.
> 
> Not sure which certificte you mean with that.

SHA1: 4a7edf9daa8955f800f8276ec70e9c44267416c7

the one referenced in Comment 19 in BZ#936304.
But I have checked just this one root CA, that's why I was saying that
there may be more.
 
> > That's why I think that we should ship the intermediate CA certificates
> > to make Firefox continue to interoperate with such sites.
> 
> Is it an option to instead ship the intermediate so that we find
> an alternative trust path?  We might already pick up that
> alternative in most cases.

that's what I had in mind, not to explicitly trust it, but to have it
"precached". So that FF behaves in the same way as if I already visited
some different site that uses this intermediate CA and properly presents
it to the clients.

-- 
Regards,
Hubert Kario
Quality Engineer, QE BaseOS Security team
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.cz.redhat.com
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