Duane wrote:
> Alaric Dailey wrote:
>
>   
>> Not to take this discussion to far off track, but why would the user
>> trust a proxied verification of the cert they are trying to verify? 
>>     
>
> All OCSP requests are signed by a CA, there was some discussion on this
> in the past and the OCSP proxy standard simply requests the OCSP
> response from the website instead of going to the CA directly, all OCSP
> responses have a limited life time and so there should be no problem
> that I can think of with this.
>
> And the reason for this is privacy of the user, do you really want
> Google (if they became a popular CA) or other companies collecting data
> on your browsing habits?
>
>   
Doh!

Didn't think about the fact that it was signed (not even sure if I knew
that, though it makes perfect sense).

I wasn't contesting the protection of privacy, the more protection that
can be done. the better!


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