Re: Policy 2.4 Proposal: Update entropy requirements for EE certificates

2017-01-12 Thread Gervase Markham
On 16/12/16 15:18, Gervase Markham wrote: > Nevertheless, we should update our policy to also use this text, because > our policy also covers email certificates. We discussed this at the All > Hands recently and we did not think that there were any compelling > reasons to provide exemptions to

Policy 2.4 Proposal: Update entropy requirements for EE certificates

2016-12-16 Thread Gervase Markham
Currently, the policy says: "all new end-entity certificates must contain at least 20 bits of unpredictable random data (preferably in the serial number)." We should require the random data to be in the serial number, and also update the number of bits required. BRs 1.3.7 and later say: