[cabfpub] Short-Lived Certs - the return

[Eddy Nigg]

On 06/11/2015 02:54 PM, Doug Beattie wrote:
> While Revocation can take place immediately, the BRs only say that you 
> must update your cert status every 10 days.

That's correct when nothing changes, which however is not correct when a 
certificate must be revoked. It's in that case no max 10 days, but 
rather fairly immediately.

Also most browsers that check OCSP do that on a daily basis and not 
after 10 days. So your argument is not really working and the reason why 
I'm not much in favor.

> The same is true with short validity period certificates;
>

Again, I think browsers can handle that according to their 
consideration. Some browsers don't check OCSP, so do only then a stapled 
response is received etc. etc.

My recommendation for browsers would be the omit revocation checking if 
the expiration of the certificate is less than 24 hours.

> This ballot will enable browsers and other applications that process 
> SSL certificates to start considering if/how they want to handle them.
>

No, they can do that already today without any ballot. But providing an 
exception for omitting OCSP/CRLs opens a can of bees....I don't want to 
go there :-)

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