[jiggawatts]

It was 100% correct up until September 2019: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1571548

Firefox still ignores the local Intermediate CA store, the revoked store, etc...

> because the goal is not to reimplement CAPI and it’s 200+ undocumented (except by support contract) flags and features.

The reality is that there are orgs out there with Enterprise CA Roots that have issued many intermediate CAs and tens of thousands leaf certificates.

Because of the arrogant behaviour of Mozilla and Google, it is now incredibly dangerous to run an Enterprise CA because it is no longer feasible to revoke an Intermediate CA!

Neither Firefox, nor Chrome check Intermediate CA CRLs or OCSP by default. Chrome up until recently would honour revocations via Group Policy, but Firefox would not.

Google uses CRLSets in Chrome for CA revocation, but good luck getting them to accept your Intermediate CA key that was compromised!

Now Google is going down the same selfish path: Because Google doesn't need Enteprise PKI -- because none of their products are used extensively for private networking -- they're more than happy to break hundreds of millions of deployed Windows private networks. Who cares, right? That's the competition!

"Do not be evil" was removed, remember?

[sleevi]

https://cloud.google.com/docs/chrome-enterprise/policies?pol...

There’s more that could be said, but I can see this is an emotionally loaded subject for you, so perhaps it’s best dealt with as it rolls out. Every feature has a cost: to complexity (CTLs are notoriously ‘weird’ on Windows, for example), to security (LDAP is a terrible protocol due to BER), or simply in the maintenance costs that prevent security improvements. Software engineering is about weighing those trade-offs: do you implement the feature that 10-100 users use, or do you spend time improving things for the other billion users? There are limits to what can be supported, and limits to what is even good to support in the first place, and while such pragmatism may seem like arrogance, the reality is less malicious: it just isn’t good software.

In any event, making sure usage statistics are enabled, and bugs are filed when actually, is a good way to help prioritize.

[jiggawatts]

> do you implement the feature that 10-100 users use

Try 10-500 million, perhaps a billion. Most medium-to-large corporations have an Enterprise PKI issuing internal-use certificates.

> do you spend time improving things for the other billion users?

Here's the thing: Google's users and Microsoft's users are much the same people, in roughly the same total numbers.

But Google would much rather have those people be only Google's users, and not Microsoft's users any longer.

Why implement a feature that helps "the competition"?

Why implement a client feature that your company's server products don't need or use?

Why bother with the private enterprise when your company only sells stuff via the public cloud?

Why bother with security at all if the attacks don't affect you directly?

These are very important question to think about, because the answers say something critical about the future of not just "The Web", but computing in general.

Google has decided they won't bother any longer. They now control a sufficient fraction of the HTML client market to force changes onto the market unilaterally, even if it that actively harms the security of their competitors.

As long as Google's needs are met, the job is done.

Microsoft customers' needs are no longer relevant...