secondary certs and names (was: Re: Secondary Certificates and 0-RTT)

(For some reason the other thread made me wonder about
this...)

This may be handled already and even if not is probably
not a real-world problem, but do we know what happens if
the subjects/SANs from primary and 2ndary certs combined
result in there sorta being no valid names due to
excludedSubtrees in one nixing the names from the other?

I expect it'd be ok to say "ditch any 2ndary certs that
have excludedSubtrees" if any change is needed. There
are probably other workable answers too, but saying nothing
could easily lead to weirdness and maybe attacks if
different libraries behave differently.

I wonder if there are any other PKIX oddities that also
ought be noted? Might be worth a check of this draft
vs. 5280 with that in mind, as I don't recall PKIX (despite
it's longevity;-) considering the semantics of sets of
certs, which is what's in play here I guess.

Cheers,
S.

Received on Thursday, 12 July 2018 14:53:36 UTC