Yes i know. The key point is to not DoS customers, so do what you have to
make sure they have certs before the revocation experiment.

On Mon, Dec 23, 2024, 1:32 AM Dimitris Zacharopoulos <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Rich,
>
> The CA cannot issue a replacement certificate if the Domain and/or
> Identity Validation reuse period has expired.
>
> Some CAs even choose to request fresh domain validations at every issuance.
>
> DZ.
>
> Dec 19, 2024 22:24:31 Rich Salz <[email protected]>:
>
> 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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