Dear Ben,

On Sep 27, 2014, at 4:53 AM, Ben Laurie <[email protected]> wrote:

> I agree that CT doesn't mitigate mis-issuance for subjects that do not 
> participate.

If by "participate" you mean owners who submit their certs to logs, CT doesn't 
detect mis-issuance even for those who do, as that email explained.

> On monitors and guarantees - anyone can run a monitor,
> including, of course, the subjects themselves, so clearly there's no
> barrier to participation for subjects who want to participate.

"No barrier"? Subjects (domain owners) would need to monitor *all* the logs out 
there.

There will be like 1000+ logs out there.

Each log will be how large (gigabytes?), and CT is not P2P, so Monitors must 
*poll* 1000+ logs constantly for updates, just for the purpose of detecting 
mis-issuance.

On top of this, Section 4.6 of your RFC (bis-04) states that logs are not 
required to send monitors everything they ask for, making it unclear whether a 
log is misbehaving or not.

This is not practical.

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But that is all besides the point.

The point is that gossip doesn't detect mis-issuance, whether or not "subjects 
participate" in CT or not.

Kind regards,
Greg Slepak

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