[Servercert-wg] Pilot project on Qualified Web Authentication Certificates (QWACs)

Ben Wilson bwilson at mozilla.com
Wed Aug 19 12:21:36 MST 2020


Hi Dimitris,
Attached here is somewhat of a counterproposal made by several of the
browsers. It recommends the adoption/use of non-TLS QWACs (nt-QWACs) that
would not have a cryptographic binding to TLS certificates (as opposed to
attribute certificates with bindings to TLS certificates). Because nt-QWACs
would be digitally signed by TSPs, they could be delivered outside of TLS
via DNS TXT records, well-known URIs, or as JSON Web Tokens.
Ben

On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 2:01 AM Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA) via
Servercert-wg <servercert-wg at cabforum.org> wrote:

>
> I believe this would be of interest to the WG.
>
>
> https://ec.europa.eu/futurium/en/blog/commission-runs-pilot-project-qualified-web-authentication-certificates-qwacs
>
>  From a very quick read and test of the demo site, the validation
> results seem to be sourced from the actual web site that is being
> checked. Do people see specific threats in the validation of this
> information and how it is displayed to the Relying Parties?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Dimitris.
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