Re: Proposal: Switch generic icon to negative feedback for non-https sites

2014-08-12 Thread Peter Gutmann
[Apologies if you've seen this before, it looks like up to a week's worth of mail from here has been lost, this is a resend of the backlog] Chris Palmer pal...@google.com writes: Firefox 31 data: on desktop the median successful OCSP validation took 261ms, and the 95th percentile (looking at

Intent to unimplement: proprietary window.crypto functions/properties

2014-08-12 Thread David Keeler
[This was originally sent to dev.platform and dev.tech.crypto] Summary: We intend to remove the proprietary window.crypto functions and properties. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript_crypto for what will be affected by this change. Our reasoning is as follows: These functions

Re: GlobalSign Request to Include ECC Roots

2014-08-12 Thread Kathleen Wilson
Actually, I think Matt's question was not about which version of the EV Guidelines was followed, but rather about which of the allowed methods of verification are used. GobalSign's CPS section 3.2.2.3 just says: For Extended Validation Certificates, the EV Guidelines are followed. So, that

Chromium, EV, and CT

2014-08-12 Thread Ryan Sleevi
I just wanted to alert members of this list of a discussion that has been started on Chromium's ct-policy@ mailing list regarding Chromium's policies for requiring EV certificates be logged in Certificate Transparency Logs. Ben Laurie has started a discussion at

Re: Chromium, EV, and CT

2014-08-12 Thread fhw843
Does Mozilla have a stated plan to include CT in its products?  The issues Ben lists sound like reasonable concerns but it seems this is putting the cart before the horse. The linchpin of CT is being able to tur‎n on hard-fail when the SCT is missing or doesn't agree with the logs--or whatever

Re: Chromium, EV, and CT

2014-08-12 Thread Ryan Sleevi
On Tue, August 12, 2014 6:49 pm, fhw...@gmail.com wrote: Does Mozilla have a stated plan to include CT in its products?  This is a separate discussion, and doesn't affect the ability of Mozilla using of CT logs to detect violations of Mozilla's inclusion policy. Obviously, CT in the client

Re: Chromium, EV, and CT

2014-08-12 Thread fhw843
It is a separate discussion. I wanted only some sort of statement from Mozilla about time frames and anticipated functionalities, if there are any. If the scope of CT is being narrowed to focus only on the use of log files as an auditing and compliance facility, that is something even I might

RE: GlobalSign Request to Include ECC Roots

2014-08-12 Thread Steve Roylance
Hi Kathleen, I see the underlying question that you (and Matt) wanted us to answer. Apologies in not being complete in my response the first time around. The reason we are specific in the CPS with regards to Organizational vetting (for everything other than EV) is a historical one. Prior to the