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by wrkronmiller 2176 days ago
> I've flagged this as a SECURITY matter for CAs to carefully review, because in the cases where a third-party, other than the Issuing CA, operates such a certificate, the Issuing CA has delegated the ability to mint arbitrary OCSP responses to this third-party!

> For example, consider this certificate https://crt.sh/?id=21606064 . It was issued by DigiCert to Microsoft, granting Microsoft the ability to provide OCSP responses for any certificate issued by Digicert's Baltimore CyberTrust Root. We know from DigiCert's disclosures that this is independently operated by Microsoft.