Re: ISSUE-169: Section 5.5.3 creates a burden on browsers to remember past certificates

This was actually raised by me.  Missed the combo box.  I've updated  
the issue.

Cheers,

J

On 7-Jan-08, at 9:53 AM, Web Security Context Working Group Issue  
Tracker wrote:

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> ISSUE-169: Section 5.5.3 creates a burden on browsers to remember  
> past certificates
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> http://www.w3.org/2006/WSC/track/issues/
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> Raised by: Sunil Agrawal
> On product:
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> As I understand it, this section creates an inescapable obligation  
> on user agents to store certificate history.  Aside from the  
> challenge that no major browser currently does this (as far as I  
> know), this creates privacy and implementation concerns around data  
> retention.  We don't say how long this information must be kept, but  
> we say the browser MUST treat it as a change of security level,  
> which does not seem to leave open the possibility of not storing it.
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Johnathan Nightingale
Human Shield
johnath@mozilla.com

Received on Monday, 7 January 2008 15:10:43 UTC