[cabfpub] Revocation ballot v2

[Jeremy Rowley]

Under this change, email is not the only way to manage Certificate Problem Reports. The change requires CAs to support at least email, but the CA may support any other methods they want to manage.  Regardless of potential spam, requiring CAs to manage one mailing list doesn’t seem unreasonable considering how difficult/annoying other methods are.    

 

From: Public [mailto:public-bounces at cabforum.org] On Behalf Of Adriano Santoni via Public
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 11:40 PM
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Subject: Re: [cabfpub] Revocation ballot v2

 

The problem I see with mandating an email address as the only way to report a problem to the CA is that mailboxes are subject to spamming. Our certificate problem reporting mailbox is being targeted to spam more and more, lately, and it is not always easy and quick to tell apart real problem reports and spam.

Il 24/08/2017 02:45, Gervase Markham via Public ha scritto:

On 23/08/17 17:39, Jeremy Rowley via Public wrote:

“Certificate Problem Report: A complaint of suspected Key Compromise,
Certificate misuse, or other types of fraud, compromise, misuse, or
inappropriate conduct related to Certificates that is sent to an email
address publicly specified in the CA’s repository. “

 
I think that if we want to mandate that the CA's Problem Reporting
Mechanisms include at minimum an email address, we should say that in
the relevant section, rather than slip it in here.
 
I would be in support of such a change. :-) We are considering it for
Mozilla policy. People currently find it too difficult to send reports
to multiple CAs, having to cope with lots of different mechanisms.
 
Gerv
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