I am sure it is revoked, please check it again, thanks.

Best Regards,

Richard

-----Original Message-----
From: dev-security-policy 
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Behalf Of Patrick T
Sent: Thursday, September 1, 2016 5:07 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Reuse of serial numbers by StartCom

On Wednesday, 31 August 2016 17:57:41 UTC+1, Eddy Nigg  wrote:
> On 08/31/2016 03:19 PM, Matt Palmer wrote:
> > That bug appears to pre-date *all* of the certificates listed above. 
> > Further, the last communication on that bug (2014-09-22), from Eddy 
> > Nigg (of StartCom), said:
> >> It's a hard and software related capacity issue of the queue 
> >> managing the certificates and the real solution will be only 
> >> available after a hardware upgrade we are planning for Nov-Dec this year.
> > So that's presumably Nov-Dec 2014... and 12 months later, duplicate 
> > serial numbers were still appearing.
> 
> Right, however we could limit this occurrence to a minimum at that 
> time
> - an entirely new infrastructure was in the pipeline already which 
> solved the problem completely. Please note that such infrastructures 
> are fairly complex and therefore also hard to deal with sometimes. I 
> acknowledged in the bug report that we were able significantly reduce 
> this issue, though not eliminate entirely.
> 
> > It's somewhat disconcerting that the response from StartCom in that 
> > bug report was, essentially, a mixture of, "it's not our fault, the 
> > software did it" and "ain't no thang".  To me, that isn't a 
> > particularly useful attitude for a CA operator.  The correctness of 
> > the software which is deployed is of
> > *crucial* importance to the trustworthiness of a CA.
> 
> True, but as explained above, some more drastic changes had to be done 
> in order to correct this issue completely, not something done over 
> night. The corrective measure and eventual implementation was however 
> there on the way, even if it took some time.
> 
> Regarding our "attitude", even though this issue was certainly not 
> desired, it wasn't comparable to a wrongful issuance leading to 
> possible abuse - some client software would however stopped working 
> when encountering a duplicate serial. And to my assessment this wasn't 
> a situation which required to take an entire system down in order to "fix"
> it (which was necessary in this case).
> 
> > Is anyone aware of any attempts by StartCom to proactively report 
> > these BR violations to Mozilla or any other trust store operator, at 
> > or around the time of issuance?  I don't see any mention of the 2015 
> > misissuances in the most recent BR audit report 
> > (https://startssl.com/ey-webtrust-br.pdf),
> > either.  Does this mean that StartCom were unaware that they had 
> > issued these duplicate certificates, despite having a history of 
> > doing so, or did they mislead their auditors?
> 
> Neither - the software wasn't designed to issue certificates with 
> duplicate serials, neither was that done knowingly or willfully. Since 
> we are talking about an occurrence of perhaps one in 40-50 thousand 
> certificates or less, it's not really something that can be measured 
> by an auditor. What can be measured are software design, actions 
> performed, implementation of plans to solve a particular issue.
> 
> PS. it appears that most certificates mentioned originally have 
> already expired, so there isn't much to revoke today except one.
> 
> --
> Regards
> Signer:       Eddy Nigg, Founder
>       StartCom Ltd. <http://www.startcom.org>
> XMPP:         [email protected] <xmpp:[email protected]>


Are the certificates listed here also affected by this problem?

https://crt.sh/?serial=056d1570da645bf6b44c0a7077cc6769&iCAID=1662

There seem to be a number of duplicated-serial certificates, which aren't 
revoked and are still valid.
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