On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Rick Andrews
<[email protected]> wrote:

> It's not a question of being unable to modify our software. As a 
> representative of Symantec, I will tell you that modifying our issuance code 
> will be a very tough sell, for a number of reasons:
>  - There's no obvious direct return on investment
>  - For some types of certificates, speed of issuance is very important. 
> Getting a CT proof will slow this down and cause it to fail if the log server 
> isn't up 100% of the time.
>  - It makes sense to avoid relying on external parties to fulfill part of our 
> cert issuance process. At this point, it's unclear who would even host a log 
> service, what SLA they would provide, how much attention they would pay to 
> performance and availability, disaster recovery, etc.
>  - Symantec would not be interested in hosting a log service because of 
> unclear ROI.

CT makes CAs less valuable targets. I'd call that ROI.
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