Rich,
That option should be considered.
Thanks,
Ben


On Thu, Dec 19, 2024, 1:24 PM Rich Salz <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think it would be advisable for a CA operator’s mass-revocation testing
>> plan to include an immediate notice to all customers whose certificates
>> were randomly selected because we would want to minimize disruption to
>> server operations while testing the CA’s ability to revoke and replace
>> certificates promptly.
>>
> That's not quite the question I was asking.  I said "pre-notify". Imagine
> a timeline like this:
>   N pick enough certs randomly. Generate replacement certs for those being
> revoked.
>   N+1 notify those customers they will be revoked ("this is a test of the
> emergency broadcasting system" as it were) and that you have replacement
> certs
>   N + 1 + x Do the revocation
>
> Would that be valid? If not, then as a reasonably large subscriber, I
> think Akamai would expect to have a cert in the mass-revocation plan, and
> if we have to respond at incident speed so that our customers are not
> impacted by such a test, we would probably take that into consideration
> about which CAs we use.
>
>

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