#127: confusing case is allowed: submission of pre-cert without embedding SCT in
issued cert


Comment (by [email protected]):

 At first glance I would tend to agree there's not much point intentionally
 submitting a pre-certificate and not embedding the resulting SCT, however
 in practice I can see cases where this would happen for operational
 reasons.

 Let's say a CA submits a precertificate to 6 logs in parallel, and then
 waits until they get enough SCTs back to meet the minimums per Chrome's EV
 CT policy.  Maybe one of the logs is performing badly and takes too long
 to respond, but then does respond with a valid SCT, or maybe a log
 responds but the network connection is broken such that the CA never
 receives the response.

 In this scenario the CA has enough SCTs, so it embeds them in a
 certificate and issues it.  If the MAY was a MUST, it would imply that a
 CA is in error if they don't embed an SCT and I don't think that makes
 sense in this case.

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 Reporter:               |       Owner:  draft-ietf-trans-
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     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  major        |   Milestone:
Component:  rfc6962-bis  |     Version:
 Severity:  -            |  Resolution:
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/trans/trac/ticket/127#comment:1>
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