[cabfpub] LEI information in web certificates

Moudrick M. Dadashov md at ssc.lt
Mon Jul 9 13:40:40 MST 2018


Which of those two proposals are "privately extensible"?

The first one (with SemanticsInformation), once implemented, should work 
for any identifiers (LEI etc.) with almost no code change. Let's discuss 
those ETSI proposals separately :)

Thanks,
M.D.


On 7/9/2018 5:18 PM, Ryan Sleevi wrote:
> They aren't well-specified, because they're privately extensible.
>
> On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 10:13 AM Tim Hollebeek 
> <tim.hollebeek at digicert.com <mailto:tim.hollebeek at digicert.com>> wrote:
>
>     Right. My original objection was that the semantics weren’t
>     specified, but as you and others (privately) have pointed out to
>     me, they’re actually specified quite well.  We just need to point
>     to the relevant ETSI standards documents.
>
>     -Tim
>
>     *From:*Moudrick M. Dadashov [mailto:md at ssc.lt <mailto:md at ssc.lt>]
>     *Sent:* Sunday, July 8, 2018 9:18 AM
>     *To:* Ryan Sleevi <sleevi at google.com <mailto:sleevi at google.com>>;
>     CA/Browser Forum Public Discussion List <public at cabforum.org
>     <mailto:public at cabforum.org>>; Tim Hollebeek
>     <tim.hollebeek at digicert.com <mailto:tim.hollebeek at digicert.com>>
>     *Subject:* Re: [cabfpub] LEI information in web certificates
>
>     IMHO ETSI case needs some clarification - in fact we have two
>     different issues here:
>
>      1. qualified and non-qualified certificate profiles (use of
>         "qcStatement-2" identified by the OID id-qcspkixQCSyntax-v2
>         with the SemanticsInformation syntax, see
>         http://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_en/319400_319499/31941201/01.01.01_60/en_31941201v010101p.pdf).
>      2. ETSI proposal related to certificates issued to payment
>         service operators (see
>         https://cabforum.org/pipermail/validation/2018-June/000948.html)
>
>     In short, the first one says: if combined with the OID
>     id-qcspkixQCSyntax-v2 the syntax of serial-number is:
>
>     TTTCC-identifier
>
>     where TTT is a type of  registry (from the list below);
>     CC - an ISO 3166 country code;
>     identifier means whatever we use today as a serial-number.
>
>     The predefined types of registries (TTT) are:
>
>     VAT - national VAT registry;
>     NTR - national trade registry;
>     PAS - national passport registry;
>     IDC - national ID card registry;
>     PNO - national civic registry;
>     TIN - Tax Identification registry
>     (https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/tin/tinByCountry.html).
>
>     but we can add more TTTs e.g. SSN, IRS etc., so the composite
>     serial-number in a certificate would look like this: IRSUS-123456789
>     Also, TTT allows you to identify the subjects from country
>     specific registries (explicitly identified in certificate, see
>     details in RFC 3739).
>
>     As for the second ETSI proposal, I suspect a little
>     misunderstanding - in the scenario where third party payment (TPP)
>     service providers play their role (see attached) they need
>     *client* authentication certificates.
>
>     Thanks,
>     M.D.
>
>     On 7/7/2018 12:36 AM, Ryan Sleevi via Public wrote:
>
>         On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 4:29 PM Tim Hollebeek via Public
>         <public at cabforum.org <mailto:public at cabforum.org>> wrote:
>
>             As many of you are aware, the GLEIF foundation recently
>             invited CA/Browser Forum members to its identity
>             management workshop.  Some people have contacted us about
>             the possibility of putting LEI identifiers into web
>             certificates.  This is in some ways similar to the recent
>             proposal from ETSI to put additional identity information
>             into certificates, though it has the advantage that we are
>             free to determine ourselves how best to encode it.
>
>             CAs are already allowed to include this information in
>             certificates, assuming it has been appropriately
>             validated.  There is a Global Legal Entity Identifier
>             Index that is authoritative for LEIs.  However it would be
>             valuable if there were a standardized CABF OID and
>             extension so that every CA that chooses to include this
>             information includes it in an interoperable way.  This
>             also allocates the OID in a namespace we control, allowing
>             us to state in the BRs the purpose and semantics of the
>             extension, and require that it only be used for authentic
>             and validated LEIs.
>
>             It seems to me that it would be worthwhile to standardize
>             this, instead of every CA coming up with their own way of
>             doing it.  What do other people think?
>
>         Could you explain how this information would be used by
>         Relying Parties?
>
>         The GLEIF model effectively relies on third-party RAs, with
>         all of the attendant issues, and without a clear framework for
>         addressing many of the issues that has been held in the CA
>         ecosystem. I'm not sure the value proposition here, or that
>         the information is something RPs should necessarily use. As to
>         whether or not it's appropriate, I think that's going to be
>         very much contingent upon what the intended semantics being
>         introduced are - that is, what relationship, if any, is being
>         expressed between the LEI ID and the domain - and that opens a
>         host of complexity that could easily detract from the far more
>         pressing and meaningful work on improving the domain and
>         information validation.
>
>         I'm not sure why a CABF OID would be more useful than a GLEIF
>         OID (which seems far more appropriate), and with a defined
>         syntax relevant for GLEIF. I can think of no good reason to
>         use the CABF arc, so I'm hoping you could explain more that
>         thinking.
>
>
>
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