Re: Letter from US House of Representatives

2015-07-08 Thread Peter Bachman
On Tuesday, June 30, 2015 at 2:36:57 PM UTC-4, Richard Barnes wrote: > Dear dev.security.policy, > > I wanted to let you all know of some correspondence that happened recently I understand root certificate bundles that are managed by the browser either as part of the OS keybag, or software keyba

Re: Letter from US House of Representatives

2015-07-07 Thread Erwann Abalea
Bonjour, Le mardi 7 juillet 2015 03:02:48 UTC+2, Peter Bowen a écrit : > Thinking about this from a technical perspective, rather than a > political one, this seems very similar to a user deciding to add > additional certificates to their trust store. I think the primary > differences are the nee

Re: Letter from US House of Representatives

2015-07-07 Thread Richard Barnes
Sent from my iPhone. Please excuse brevity. > On Jul 7, 2015, at 08:01, Peter Bowen wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 7:51 AM, Richard Barnes wrote: >> To echo Gerv's point: How is the user supposed to evaluate whether to >> trust the EU list? > > I was not imaging a first-launch UI to choose,

Re: Letter from US House of Representatives

2015-07-07 Thread Peter Bowen
On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 7:51 AM, Richard Barnes wrote: > To echo Gerv's point: How is the user supposed to evaluate whether to > trust the EU list? I was not imaging a first-launch UI to choose, rather an option similar to what is available today for adding CAs. There is a special mime type that

Re: Letter from US House of Representatives

2015-07-07 Thread Richard Barnes
> [mailto:dev-security-policy-bounces+ben=digicert@lists.mozilla.org] On > Behalf Of Gervase Markham > Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2015 6:13 AM > To: mozilla-dev-security-pol...@lists.mozilla.org > Subject: Re: Letter from US House of Representatives > >> On 06/07/15 17:4

RE: Letter from US House of Representatives

2015-07-07 Thread Ben Wilson
@lists.mozilla.org] On Behalf Of Gervase Markham Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2015 6:13 AM To: mozilla-dev-security-pol...@lists.mozilla.org Subject: Re: Letter from US House of Representatives On 06/07/15 17:44, Ben Wilson wrote: > Thanks. I realize/think that this would require a separate root > progra

Re: Letter from US House of Representatives

2015-07-07 Thread Gervase Markham
On 06/07/15 17:44, Ben Wilson wrote: > Thanks. I realize/think that this would require a separate root > program. If you think of it as a Venn diagram there would be Set A > and Set B. The user would then select A, B, A U B or A ∩ B. The trouble with this is that, while it makes sense to you

Re: Letter from US House of Representatives

2015-07-07 Thread Moudrick M. Dadashov
- From: dev-security-policy [mailto:dev-security-policy-bounces+richard=wosign@lists.mozilla.org] On Behalf Of Ben Wilson Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2015 12:45 AM To: Gervase Markham; mozilla-dev-security-pol...@lists.mozilla.org Cc: Tom Ritter; Peter Kurrasch; Eric Mill; Richard Barnes Subject: RE:

Re: Letter from US House of Representatives

2015-07-07 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On 2015-07-06 16:34, Ben Wilson wrote: I was asked (by someone in the audience and not by anyone specifically representing EU governments) to relay a message that some European supervisory bodies would like browsers and OS providers to enable and support an additional trust list or trust store, s

Re: Letter from US House of Representatives

2015-07-07 Thread Rob Stradling
n Behalf Of Ben Wilson Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2015 12:45 AM To: Gervase Markham; mozilla-dev-security-pol...@lists.mozilla.org Cc: Tom Ritter; Peter Kurrasch; Eric Mill; Richard Barnes Subject: RE: Letter from US House of Representatives Gerv, Thanks. I realize/think that this would require a s

Re: Letter from US House of Representatives

2015-07-06 Thread Peter Bowen
From: dev-security-policy > [mailto:dev-security-policy-bounces+richard=wosign@lists.mozilla.org] On > Behalf Of Ben Wilson > Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2015 12:45 AM > To: Gervase Markham; mozilla-dev-security-pol...@lists.mozilla.org > Cc: Tom Ritter; Peter Kurrasch; Eric Mill;

RE: Letter from US House of Representatives

2015-07-06 Thread Richard Wang
Subject: RE: Letter from US House of Representatives Gerv, Thanks. I realize/think that this would require a separate root program. If you think of it as a Venn diagram there would be Set A and Set B. The user would then select A, B, A U B or A ∩ B. From a U.S. Government perspective, I have

RE: Letter from US House of Representatives

2015-07-06 Thread Ben Wilson
Ben -Original Message- From: Gervase Markham [mailto:g...@mozilla.org] Sent: Monday, July 6, 2015 10:29 AM To: Ben Wilson; mozilla-dev-security-pol...@lists.mozilla.org Cc: Eric Mill; Peter Kurrasch; Tom Ritter; Richard Barnes Subject: Re: Letter from US House of Representatives On 06/07/15

Re: Letter from US House of Representatives

2015-07-06 Thread Gervase Markham
On 06/07/15 15:34, Ben Wilson wrote: > =P7-TA-2014-0282> &language=EN&reference=P7-TA-2014-0282, I was asked (by > someone in the audience and not by anyone specifically representing EU > governments) to relay a message that some European supervisory bodies would > like browsers and OS providers to

RE: Letter from US House of Representatives

2015-07-06 Thread Ben Wilson
v-security-pol...@lists.mozilla.org Subject: Re: Letter from US House of Representatives On 30 June 2015 at 13:36, Richard Barnes < <mailto:rbar...@mozilla.com> rbar...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Obviously, we can't change the letter now, but if you have any > thoughts or con

Re: Letter from US House of Representatives

2015-07-05 Thread Tom Ritter
On 30 June 2015 at 13:36, Richard Barnes wrote: > Obviously, we can't change the letter now, but if you have any thoughts or > concerns about this interaction, please feel free to reply in this thread. I guess I feel like there was a lot more things that could be put under #4. - I understand Moz

Re: Letter from US House of Representatives

2015-07-03 Thread Eric Mill
> As you know, the root store is a fixed component with the browser and the only way to change it is to update your browser. That may be true for Firefox, but I don't think that's universally true. I believe some browsers look to the underlying OS trust store, which can be updated separately from

Re: Letter from US House of Representatives

2015-07-03 Thread Peter Kurrasch
Thanks for sharing this correspondence, Richard. I'm not sure the committee fully appreciates the scope of the problem but it's good to see them make an effort. I was actually surprised that the committee seems to understand as much as they do so perhaps this will be just a first step in a proce