The only restrictions on reason codes for revocations that I am aware of is
Mozilla's recent addition to their root program rules,
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/policies/security-group/certs/policy/#611-end-entity-tls-certificate-crlrevocation-reasons

The corresponding wiki page definitely appears to imply that reason codes
were generally not restricted,
https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA/Revocation_Reasons

(but I am far from an expert in such policy matters)


On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 2:52 PM Tavis Ormandy <[email protected]> wrote:

> Apologies if I send this twice, I tried posting it via gmane and I think it
> failed.
>
> I understand the BRs require revocation in some circumstances, but are
> there any
> limits on when an issuer can revoke? Can they revoke for any reason
> whatsoever?
> Is the reason code required to be honest?
>
> I was recently surprised by an issuer demanding maintenance fees to *not*
> revoke
> a certificate. The certificate was not compromised and not expiring. Is
> this
> permitted by the BRs? It feels like misusing a mechanism that was intended
> to
> protect the PKI, not extract profit.
>
> I was being lazy and not migrating a very old system to ACME. I've
> migrated it now, because that felt really gross. I don't know what reason
> code
> they use for the revocation, I guess I'm curious if they will lie.
>
> Tavis.
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