[cabfpub] Pre-Ballot - Short-Life Certificates

[Eddy Nigg]

On 10/31/2014 11:59 PM, Gervase Markham wrote:
> There is certainly the option of treating expired short-lived certs 
> differently in new browsers, and I suggested that we might do that in 
> the discussion in Beijing. But that would be icing on the cake. 

In my opinion very important!

> Would you prefer it if the guidelines said that each successive 
> short-lived cert had to use a different key?

I would see an even higher risk if such keys would have to be exchanged 
on a daily basis. Or pre-created and submitted to the CA (as CSR) and 
stored somewhere.

I'm not really a supporter of this idea, but it's obvious that each way 
has its own risks. I see more risks for such (short-lived) certificates 
in general, no matter which way you chose (regarding reuse of the key or 
not).

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