Re: PrintableString, UTF8String, and RFC 5280

2019-11-20 Thread Peter Gutmann via dev-security-policy
Ryan Sleevi writes: >I don't think the hyperbole helps here. It wasn't hyperbole, it was extreme surprise. When someone told me about this I couldn't believe it was still happening after the massive amount of publicity it got at the time, so it was more a giant "WTF?!??" than anything else. Ot

Re: PrintableString, UTF8String, and RFC 5280

2019-11-20 Thread Ryan Sleevi via dev-security-policy
On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 10:54 PM Peter Gutmann wrote: > Ryan Sleevi writes: > > >Do you believe it’s still applicable in the Web PKI of the past decade? > > Yes, the specific cert I referenced is current valid and passed WebTrust > and > EV audits. > "Passed" is... a bit misleading as to the (l

Re: PrintableString, UTF8String, and RFC 5280

2019-11-20 Thread Peter Gutmann via dev-security-policy
Ryan Sleevi writes: >Do you believe it’s still applicable in the Web PKI of the past decade? Yes, the specific cert I referenced is current valid and passed WebTrust and EV audits. >If you could link to the crt.sh entry, that might be easier. Here's the Microsoft one I mentioned: Microsoft

Re: PrintableString, UTF8String, and RFC 5280

2019-11-20 Thread Ryan Sleevi via dev-security-policy
On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 9:48 PM Peter Gutmann wrote: > Ryan Sleevi via dev-security-policy > writes: > > >In https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1593814 , Rob Stradling, > >Jeremy Rowley, and I started discussing possible steps that might be > taken to > >prevent misencoding strings in

Re: PrintableString, UTF8String, and RFC 5280

2019-11-20 Thread Peter Gutmann via dev-security-policy
Ryan Sleevi via dev-security-policy writes: >In https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1593814 , Rob Stradling, >Jeremy Rowley, and I started discussing possible steps that might be taken to >prevent misencoding strings in certificates Is there any official position on strings that have c

PrintableString, UTF8String, and RFC 5280

2019-11-20 Thread Ryan Sleevi via dev-security-policy
In https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1593814 , Rob Stradling, Jeremy Rowley, and I started discussing possible steps that might be taken to prevent misencoding strings in certificates, and it seemed appropriate to shift this to a more general m.d.s.p. discussion, rather than solely on th