[cabfpub] Serial Number Entropy
Ben Wilson
ben.wilson at digicert.com
Mon Aug 11 18:53:55 UTC 2014
The purpose of this email is just to place a reminder for us or get the conversation going if anyone wants to discuss this suggestion from a call I was on today -
Could the CA/B Forum (and Browser root programs) revise/update its response to the 2008 Sotirov MD5 pre-image attack?
The commenter's point was that today there are other ways to reduce the risk of this pre-image attack in addition to 20-bit entropy in serial numbers (which we specify in the Baseline Requirements for SSL and the Code Signing draft). Those include- variable issuance/expiration times (e.g. minutes, seconds, etc.) and better hash algorithms (not SHA1).
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