On Tuesday, November 1, 2016, Stephen Farrell <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> I am quite interested in discussing privacy issues if they
> exist here. (I don't however accept that corporate secrecy
> is a privacy issue.)


I don't see how, within a certificate, you can draw that line.

We know people are deploying DNS names with PII (the U.K. tax offices
naming scheme, for example, uses tax identifiers as subdomains). We know
CAs are deploying subject naming information in certificates, and these are
issued to natural persons. givenName and Surname are an example, but as
Peter points out, CAs are issuing certificates for individuals (IV), and
these are permitted to put the PII in the O field.

I appreciate the "data needed" viewpoint, but I don't agree with using the
extant logs to justify that viewpoint, especially when you consider what
the extant logs are presently logging, and what's desired to be logged.

I can appreciate you see a difference between corporate secrecy vs personal
privacy - but perhaps you could articulate how that codifies into
certificates being issued, or its technical relevance. I can understand
that playing into discussions about which to punt on, but I don't feel
you've done a good job articulating why you feel this distinction is
relevant, or what end it serves, given the context of certificates.


I'm entirely fine with discussion of privacy as it relates
> to CT, and would be glad to see that. My main point is that
> privacy is entirely different from corporate secrecy, and
> conflating the two would be an error.


Can you suggest a meaningful distinction between these two, as expressed in
certificates?

So going beyond the well understood use-cases has a number
> of risks.


Can you expand on what you see as well-understood? I thought both IV certs
and QCP certs were well understood, at least within the context of the Web
PKI.


> To reiterate: I'm very happy if we discuss privacy so long
> as we do not conflate that with corporate secrecy. There are
> requirements for both, but they are far from the same.
>

Can we infer that you're happy to discuss corporate secrecy as well? Could
you expand on why you see these requirements as different?
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