[Servercert-wg] [External Sender] Discussion about single-purpose client authentication leaf certificates issued from a server TLS Issuing CA

[Pedro FUENTES]

I also oversaw that…

Anyhow… @Clint, what are the audit requirements for these clientAuth CAs?
In your program you mention WTBR as a requirement for "TLS CAs”, but there’s no distinction between clientAuth or serverAuth… while both are used to secure TLS handshakes.

> On 17 May 2024, at 11:22, Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA) <dzacharo at harica.gr> wrote:
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> On 16/5/2024 10:29 μ.μ., Clint Wilson wrote:
>>> AFAIK Apple and Mozilla also don't have a specific "trust bit" for Client Authentication. Only Microsoft does.
>> FWIW, Apple does indeed have a specific trust bit for id-kp-clientAuth EKU and allows for (and ships) dedicated clientAuth Root CAs in the Apple Root Program (as outlined in 2.1.3 of the ARP Policy).
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> Thanks for the correction Clint. I had the impression that you shipped only Apple Roots for clientAuth. My bad.
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> Dimitris.
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