Re: [cryptography] [SSL Observatory] Diginotar broken arrow as a tour-de-force of PKI fail

2011-09-05 Thread Ian G
On 5/09/11 7:23 PM, Gervase Markham wrote: The thing which makes the entire system as weak as its weakest link is the lack of CA pinning. Just a question of understanding: how is the CA pinning information delivered to the browser? (For those who don't know, I also had to look it up too

Re: [cryptography] [SSL Observatory] Diginotar broken arrow as a tour-de-force of PKI fail

2011-09-05 Thread James A. Donald
On 2011-09-06 9:35 AM, Ian G wrote: (Another sign that the processes aren't doing the job is that CABForum's solution is to add more audits. We're up to 4, now, right? WebTrust, BR, EV, vendor. Would 5 do it? 6?) Shades of Sarbannes Oxley. ___

Re: [cryptography] [SSL Observatory] Diginotar broken arrow as a tour-de-force of PKI fail

2011-09-05 Thread James A. Donald
the browser vendors have chosen to prevent them from employing any other option (I can't, for example, turn on TLS-PSK or TLS-SRP in my server, because no browsers support it - it would make the CAs look bad if it were deployed). Patches welcome? (Or did we reject them already? :-)