[cabfpub] Ballot 108: Clarifying the scope of the baseline requirements

Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) eddy_nigg at startcom.org
Wed Aug 7 11:58:09 MST 2013


On 08/07/2013 08:59 PM, From Ryan Sleevi:
> The cited libraries will all treat the SGC EKUs as equivalent to 
> Server Auth in that case. As such, certs with SGC EKUs would need to 
> be in scope, because they'd be technically possible to be used as 
> server certs. 

You might be right - the concern is what Gerv already mentioned here: 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476807

/Anyone still using "It supports SGC/Step Up" as a marketing mechanism 
is either a) encouraging the use of long-outdated, insecure and 
standards-incompliant browsers, or b) using FUD./



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