On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 8:52 PM 'Alex Cohn' via
[email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>>    -
>>
>>    the certificate subscriber, *who has provided proof of possession of
>>    the private key**, *requests that the CA revoke the certificate for
>>    this reason.
>>
>> Maybe I'm misreading this, but adding the requirement to prove possession
> of the private key seems to me to make the last line entirely redundant:
> providing proof of possession of a certificate's private key, combined with
> a request for revocation for key compromise, would seem to me to qualify as
> "verifiable evidence that the certificate subscriber’s private key
> corresponding to the public key in the certificate suffered a key
> compromise."
>

I think the current language was trying to capture what I raised in my
previous reply: that the proof of possession wouldn’t necessarily accompany
the request for revocation, but may have been completed previously (e.g.
during issuance, via a CSR)

>

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