Re: New problematic practice

2013-12-10 Thread Peter Gutmann
Erwann Abalea eaba...@gmail.com writes: Has this extension been de-obsoleted? It was already deprecated in RFC2459, it's not even present in RFC5280 anymore. Like other aspects of the web PKI (e.g. wildcard certs), this is one of the areas where you need to ignore what PKIX says and do what

Re: New problematic practice

2013-11-29 Thread Ralph Holz (TUM)
Hi, ===Backdating the notBefore date=== Certificates do not contain an issue timestamp, so it is not possible to be certain when they were issued. The notBefore date is the start of the certificate's validity range, and is set by the CA. It should be a reasonable reflection of the date on

Re: New problematic practice

2013-11-29 Thread Brian Smith
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 1:20 AM, Gervase Markham g...@mozilla.org wrote: Comments? I suggest you propose it as a change to the baseline requirements. Cheers, Brian -- Mozilla Networking/Crypto/Security (Necko/NSS/PSM) ___ dev-security-policy mailing