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Extended Validation certificates and cross-site scripting

Posted Mar 13, 2008 6:45 UTC (Thu) by grahammm (guest, #773)
Parent article: Extended Validation certificates and cross-site scripting

Maybe as soon as a site is detected as having a (potential) XSS vulnerability, the CA should
revoke the EV certificate. But then do all browsers consult the CRLs?

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Posted Mar 13, 2008 11:01 UTC (Thu) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]

AFAIK, no browsers bother to consult CRLs unless the user spends a lot of time configuring a
CRL for each embedded CA certificate that the browser ships with. Making the whole X.509 PKI
fairly useless in practice.