[Smcwg-public] [External Sender] Re: Re: Allowing a signature made with an S/MIME IV or SV certificate as an additional individual identity validation method

Adriano Santoni adriano.santoni at staff.aruba.it
Thu May 16 12:06:18 UTC 2024


At any rate, even with a digital signature made with an eIDAS qualified 
certificate, you (the CA) cannot tell - in general - whether the 
certificate was issued after identifying the Applicant with the method 
described in eIDAS Article 24-1a, rather than 24-1b, or 24-1c, or 24-1d. 
So it is quite possible that a certain an eIDAS qualified certificate, 
taken at random, was issued with any of those 4 methods as regards the 
individual identity vetting, AFAIK.

Adriano


Il 16/05/2024 13:49, Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA) ha scritto:
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> On 13/5/2024 5:03 μ.μ., Adriano Santoni via Smcwg-public wrote:
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>> Hi Martijn,
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>> I appreciate your concern, but would not the same concern also arise 
>> with a digital signature made with an eIDAS qualified certificate?
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> Hi Adriano, I missed this thread, apologies my earlier post didn't 
> take this thread into account,
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> If you are referring to eIDAS1 Art. 24-1c this renewal is allowed only 
> if the relied-upon certificate was issued under Art. 24-1a or 24-1b. 
> It cannot be used when a request is signed with a Qualified 
> Certificate issued under Art. 24-1c otherwise we would fall into the 
> situation that Martijn described.
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> Dimitris.
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>> Anyway, it could be addressed by setting a time limit after which 
>> re-validation by other means (to be specified) must be done, as you 
>> suggest.
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>> Regards
>>
>> Adriano
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>> Il 13/05/2024 15:53, Martijn Katerbarg ha scritto:
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>>> Hi Adriano,
>>>
>>> My immediate concern would be the scenario where say in 2024 someone 
>>> gets an S/MIME IV certificate issued based on current validation 
>>> practices. Then in 2 years time, they renew based on their existing 
>>> S/MIME certificate. Then in another two years, again, and yet again. 
>>> Soon, we’ll be 10 years since the original validation took place, 
>>> and ever since then the CA has relied upon an existing S/MIME 
>>> certificate (or CA’s, if the Subscriber is switching to a different 
>>> vendor) without any additional verification.
>>>
>>> Additionally, currently there’s no requirement to indicate in an SV 
>>> certificate if an Enterprise RA was used or not.
>>>
>>> The second item could be solved by adding an indicator for that into 
>>> the certificate (See https://github.com/cabforum/smime/issues/12), 
>>> but I’m not sure how we’d solve the second one, and I’d be very 
>>> hesitant on supporting something like that, without a proper time 
>>> limit in place at which point re-validation would need to occur.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Martijn
>>>
>>> *From:* Smcwg-public <smcwg-public-bounces at cabforum.org> on behalf 
>>> of Adriano Santoni via Smcwg-public <smcwg-public at cabforum.org>
>>> *Date:* Monday, 13 May 2024 at 15:32
>>> *To:* SMIME Certificate Working Group <smcwg-public at cabforum.org>
>>> *Subject:* [Smcwg-public] Allowing a signature made with an S/MIME 
>>> IV or SV certificate as an additional individual identity validation 
>>> method
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>>> Hi all,
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>>> I already made the following proposal previously, both in writing 
>>> here on the mailing list and also verbally during the last call (at 
>>> the very last minutes as it was not on the agenda, sorry), but I 
>>> don't see it mentioned in the call minutes of May 8 below, so I'll 
>>> try to propose it again.
>>>
>>> Among the methods for the "Validation of individual identity" (SMBR 
>>> 3.2.4.2), as part of the validation process of a request for an 
>>> S/MIME IV certificate (or an SV certificate, where there is no 
>>> Enterprise RA involved), I think it would make sense to admit - in 
>>> addition to a digital signature based on an eIDAS compliant 
>>> qualified certificate - also a digital signature based on another 
>>> S/MIME IV or SV (BR-compliant) certificate of the applicant. This 
>>> seems quite logical to me considering the rigor inherent in the 
>>> validation requirements already established by the S/MIME BR to date.
>>>
>>> At least in the case of /renewal/, I think it would be completely 
>>> logical and safe to accept a request signed by the applicant with 
>>> his/her current S/MIME IV or SV certificate (the one soon to expire) 
>>> without the need to perform a further "verification of individual 
>>> identity" with other methods.
>>>
>>> If this idea for some reason doesn't seem practical or useful or 
>>> safe enough, I'd like someone to explain their objections or concerns.
>>>
>>> Thank you all for your attention.
>>>
>>> Adriano
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>>> Il 11/05/2024 22:02, Stephen Davidson via Smcwg-management ha scritto:
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>>>     ## Minutes of SMCWG
>>>
>>>     May 8, 2024
>>>
>>>     These are the Draft Minutes of the meeting described in the
>>>     subject of this message. Corrections and clarifications where
>>>     needed are encouraged by reply.
>>>
>>>     ## Attendees
>>>
>>>     Abhishek Bhat - (eMudhra), Adriano Santoni - (Actalis S.p.A.),
>>>     Aggie Wang - (TrustAsia), Andrea Holland - (VikingCloud), Ashish
>>>     Dhiman - (GlobalSign), Ben Wilson - (Mozilla), Bruce Morton -
>>>     (Entrust), Clint Wilson - (Apple), Corey Bonnell - (DigiCert),
>>>     Dimitris Zacharopoulos - (HARICA), Inaba Atsushi - (GlobalSign),
>>>     Inigo Barreira - (Sectigo), Janet Hines - (VikingCloud), Judith
>>>     Spencer - (CertiPath), Keshava Nagaraju - (eMudhra), Marco
>>>     Schambach - (IdenTrust), Martijn Katerbarg - (Sectigo), Morad
>>>     Abou Nasser - (TeleTrust), Mrugesh Chandarana - (IdenTrust),
>>>     Nome Huang - (TrustAsia), Rebecca Kelly - (SSL.com), Renne
>>>     Rodriguez - (Apple), Rollin Yu - (TrustAsia), Scott Rea -
>>>     (eMudhra), Stefan Selbitschka - (rundQuadrat), Stephen Davidson
>>>     - (DigiCert), Tadahiko Ito - (SECOM Trust Systems), Tathan
>>>     Thacker - (IdenTrust), Tsung-Min Kuo - (Chunghwa Telecom), Wendy
>>>     Brown - (US Federal PKI Management Authority)
>>>
>>>     ## 1. Roll Call
>>>
>>>     The Roll Call was taken.
>>>
>>>     ## 2. Read Antitrust Statement
>>>
>>>     The statement was read concerning the antitrust policy, code of
>>>     conduct, and intellectual property rights agreement.
>>>
>>>     ## 3. Review Agenda
>>>
>>>     Minutes were prepared by Stephen Davidson.
>>>
>>>     ## 4. Approval of minutes from last teleconference
>>>
>>>     The minutes for the teleconference of April 24 were approved.
>>>
>>>     ## 5. Discussion
>>>
>>>     Stephen Davidson noted that Ballot SMC06 was in IPR until May
>>>     11. See
>>>     https://lists.cabforum.org/pipermail/smcwg-public/2024-April/000957.html
>>>     <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.cabforum.org%2Fpipermail%2Fsmcwg-public%2F2024-April%2F000957.html&data=05%7C02%7Cmartijn.katerbarg%40sectigo.com%7C708f7bd916fb456126ba08dc73512026%7C0e9c48946caa465d96604b6968b49fb7%7C0%7C0%7C638512039511762331%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=BHKcC9wi8xSZNIvCbF96gxjYbCI1d3s1SwRCdNpXMQw%3D&reserved=0>.
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>>>     The WG discussed and approved the change of KeyFactor from an
>>>     Interested Party to an Associate Member, Ellie Schieder as an
>>>     Interested Party, and Posteo e.K as a Certificate Consumer.
>>>
>>>     The WG reviewed and discussed a ballot proposed by Martijn
>>>     Katerbarg which would bring the S/MIME BR up to date with a
>>>     recent ballot at the TLS BR for logging. See more at
>>>     https://github.com/cabforum/smime/issues/241
>>>     <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fcabforum%2Fsmime%2Fissues%2F241&data=05%7C02%7Cmartijn.katerbarg%40sectigo.com%7C708f7bd916fb456126ba08dc73512026%7C0e9c48946caa465d96604b6968b49fb7%7C0%7C0%7C638512039511777400%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=zsu0bwRhIDoxPPlahVUlbI%2B%2FU7VdcyIjSfYHixo1JAk%3D&reserved=0>
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>>>
>>>     The WG had an extensive discussion regarding the migration to
>>>     Multipurpose/Strict profiles. Stephen noted that so far only two
>>>     points had been raised by Certificate Issuers:
>>>
>>>       * Having adequate time (such as one year) to allow ERAs using
>>>         integration time to adapt.
>>>       * Concerns relating to the impact of shorter validity on
>>>         deployments using tokens/smartcards.
>>>
>>>     Judith Spencer and Wendy Brown commented that the shorter
>>>     validity had real impact on large (including public sector)
>>>     deployments that use tokens/smartcards, including:
>>>
>>>       * limited storage on tokens/smartcards;
>>>       * the increased burden of key exchange; and
>>>       * and the costs of support for rekeying.
>>>
>>>     The question was raised whether it would be feasible to increase
>>>     the validity for the Multipurpose profile to 1185 days in
>>>     general, or in cases where tokens/smartcards are used.  Clint
>>>     Wilson spoke about the security and crypto agility benefits of
>>>     shorter validity periods.  It was agreed this topic would be
>>>     continued in Bergamo.
>>>
>>>     ## 6. Any Other Business
>>>
>>>     None.
>>>
>>>     ## 7. Next call
>>>
>>>     Next call:  the teleconference scheduled for May 22 has been
>>>     cancelled. Next meeting is Bergamo F2F.
>>>
>>>     ## Adjourned
>>>
>>>
>>>
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