??? I think it is fairly clear that with the necessary privs, I can request a TCP/IP socket on any port (other than 0) and then bind a TLS provider to it.
The point I am making is that the fact the subscriber might use the certificate on port 8443 or for that matter on any port in the range [1,65535] does not mean that the validation process should allow other ports. I currently have >40 TCP/IP sockets open on this Windows box and two thirds of them have https on them. And that is just my development environment. I suspect most of them are due to Docker or the Linux VMs. More importantly though, how many validation approaches do we need? I would rather work on reducing them rather than increasing them further. In particular, I would like CAA to become a one stop shop for telling CAs what they need to issue a cert. For example: example.com. IN CAA 0 issue "comodoca.com" example.com. IN CAA 128 udf "MDTXA-Y7DQJ-P7IRF-XUCRE-2Y5TH-RVNHP" The above record would prevent a CA from issuing a cert unless they understand the semantics of the UDF record. So this is the only validation approach permitted. The UDF record requires that any cert request be signed or countersigned according to a security policy that has the UDF fingerprint "MDTXA-Y7DQJ-P7IRF-XUCRE-2Y5TH-RVNHP" These are described here. https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hallambaker-udf-08 From: Ryan Sleevi [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 2, 2018 10:52 AM To: Phillip <[email protected]>; CA/Browser Forum Public Discussion List <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Hoffman <[email protected]>; Ben Wilson <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [cabfpub] [Ext] BR Authorized Ports, add 8443 On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 10:35 AM, Phillip via Public <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: To clarify what Paul said, We need to distinguish between the use of a port for certificate validation and the use of a port for delivery of an Internet service. The fact that we use SSL on every port to provide a service does not mean that we should allow that use for validation. On what basis do you make this claim? I see no justification for the distinction, nor support for the 'fact'. I do think we should consider adding a DNS prefix for certificate validation though because ports are the old way to advertise services and does not scale. We ran out of ports a long time ago and now use DNS prefixes and .well-known HTTP services to extend the port numbers. -----Original Message----- From: Public [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ] On Behalf Of Paul Hoffman via Public Sent: Friday, March 2, 2018 10:08 AM To: Ben Wilson <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >; CA/Browser Forum Public Discussion List <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [cabfpub] [Ext] BR Authorized Ports, add 8443 On Mar 1, 2018, at 7:51 AM, Ben Wilson via Public <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: > > Forwarding from Richard Wang: > > The current BRs say: > > Authorized Ports: One of the following ports: 80 (http), 443 (http), 25 (smtp), 22 (ssh). > > But many internal networks use the port 8443, broadly used in Apache server, today, one of our customers uses this port and can't change to use another port, I wish you can help to add this port 8443 to be allowed in the BRs, thanks. It appears that the BRs currently are talking about authorizing *services*, not ports. That is, I would not expect to be able to put a HTTP server on port 22 on my system and have that considered authorized by the BRs. Any Internet service can be run on any port. Every web, SMTP, and SSH server software configuration allows you to run on the standard ports or any port you choose. Two suggestions: - Clarify the BRs to say "Authorized Services and Ports" - Add text that says only the authorized ports may be used If CABF folks want to allow issuance of certificates for services on ports other than the standard ports, you will have to decide what it means to initially offer a service on one part and then move it to another port. The PKIX standard does not allow encoding of port numbers for services in certificates. --Paul Hoffman _______________________________________________ Public mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> https://cabforum.org/mailman/listinfo/public _______________________________________________ Public mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> https://cabforum.org/mailman/listinfo/public
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