[cabfpub] CT discussion at CABF

[Rob Stradling]

The client update rate isn't particularly relevant to CT.  "Pre-CT" 
clients won't stop working once CT is deployed.  And even if Chrome is 
the only browser that ever implements CT, it will still provide some 
level of herd immunity to users of other browsers: detecting 
misissuances faster helps everyone.

In my view, the big problem is the painfully slow rate at which servers 
get updated.  It's because of this problem that Precertificates exist.

On 21/02/14 14:42, Ben Wilson wrote:
> Client updating is taking place at a pretty amazing rate nowadays.
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> On 02/21/2014 12:55 PM, From Rob Stradling:
>
> There's a big difference between (1) a feature/update being available in
> the latest version of some third-party software and (2) that
> feature/update actually being deployed everywhere.
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> Yes, this can take some time - as client software will have to be
> updated as well and pre-CT clients will not support CT either. A client
> that doesn't support CT will not check it either way, neither pre-cert
> nor otherwise. That's pretty much how things work.
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