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Jeremy Rowley

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Feb 28, 2018, 12:38:16 PM2/28/18
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Hi everyone,



I wanted to share an incident report regarding the revocation of certain
certificates ordered through a reseller.



On February 2nd, 2018, we received a request from Trustico to mass revoke
all certificates that had been ordered by end users through Trustico.
Unfortunately, the email was not sent to the appropriate certificate problem
reporting channels and did not surface immediately so we're delayed in
sharing the concerns and information. Once we were alerted, the team kicked
off a debate that I wanted to bring to the CAB Forum. Basically, our
position is that resellers do not constitute subscribers under the Baseline
Requirement's definitions (Section 1.6.1). As such, we needed to confirm
that either the key was compromised or that they revocation was authorized
by the domain holder (the subscriber) prior to revoking the certificate. The
certificates were not alleged as compromised at that time.



Later, the company shared with us that they held the private keys and the
certificates were compromised, trying to trigger the BR's 24-hour revocation
requirement. However, we insisted that the subscriber must confirm the
revocation request or there must be evidence of the private key compromise.



Normally, we permit partners to revoke and manage the certificates freely on
behalf of their customer, with DigiCert providing all validation and
issuance services. However, the sheer number of revocation requests (50k)
and allegation of compromise triggered concerns around the impact to the web
and browser users. Therefore, this was categorized as high risk, especially
considering the relationship between Trustico and DigiCert is terminating.



On 2/27/2018, at my request for proof of compromise, we received a file with
23k private keys matched to specific Trustico customers. This definitely
triggered our 24-hour revocation processing requirement under 4.9.1.1.3.
Once we received the keys, we confirmed that these were indeed the matching
private keys for the reported certificates. We will be revoking these
certificates today (February 28th, 2018).



At this time, Trustico has not provided any information about how these
certificates were compromised or how they acquired the private keys. As is
standard practice for a Certificate Authority, DigiCert never had possession
of these private keys.



Currently, we are only revoking the certificates if we received the private
keys. There are additional certificates the reseller requested to have
revoked, but DigiCert has decided to disregard that request until we receive
proof of compromise or more information about the cause of this incident.



DigiCert sent out emails to the affected customers in order to notify them
that their certificate(s) are being revoked. This revocation only affects
those customers and there is no additional exposure that we are aware of at
this time, nor any reason to believe there is.



This raises a question about the MDSP policy and CAB Forum requirements. Who
is the subscriber in the reseller relation? We believe this to be the key
holder. However, the language is unclear. I think we followed the letter and
spirit of the BRs here, but I'd like feedback, perhaps leading to a ballot
that clarifies the subscriber in a reseller relationship.



This also brings up a ballot about the level of due diligence required for
cert revocation. We generally believe that the private key or demonstration
of domain control is sufficient to request revocation. Others are at the CAs
discretion. Should we clarify what the due diligence looks like? Are there
other things we should have done or been doing?



What kind of transparency would the Mozilla community like around this
issue? There aren't many more facts than I shared above, but there is a lot
of speculation. Let me know what I can share to help alleviate confusion and
answer questions.



Jeremy





Tom Ritter

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Feb 28, 2018, 12:54:17 PM2/28/18
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On 28 February 2018 at 11:37, Jeremy Rowley via dev-security-policy
<dev-secur...@lists.mozilla.org> wrote:
> What kind of transparency would the Mozilla community like around this
> issue? There aren't many more facts than I shared above, but there is a lot
> of speculation. Let me know what I can share to help alleviate confusion and
> answer questions.

Have you contacted the customers whose certificates you have not
revoked; but which were in the original batch? It seems likely they're
going to wind up revoked too.

Is there any way to identify these certificates through crt.sh or
through a manual cert search? (Some special
Intermediate/CRL/OID/string...?)

Has Trustico said anything about whether or not they will provide more
information in the future?

-tom

Nick Lamb

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Feb 28, 2018, 1:46:45 PM2/28/18
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On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 17:37:25 +0000
Jeremy Rowley via dev-security-policy
<dev-secur...@lists.mozilla.org> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> On February 2nd, 2018, we received a request from Trustico to mass
> revoke all certificates that had been ordered by end users through
> Trustico.

Is this date (2 February, so almost four weeks ago) correct?

In any case, my first thought here was to check whether Trustico
understand what revocation would and would not achieve, and still want
to go ahead.

I know from dealing with Let's Encrypt users that people can get some
ideas about what's going on with the Web PKI that bear no resemblance
to reality, and although we have no formal duty to teach them better,
there's no benefit to the world from pretending they're right. For
example at least once a week we'll see Let's Encrypt users who want to
revoke a certificate they've issued and are asking questions about how
- almost always it turns out they don't have a sensible reason to
revoke, e.g. they hoped revoking will reset their API rate limits, or
the files are taking up too much disk space for them and of course
revocation won't help with either of these things.


> This raises a question about the MDSP policy and CAB Forum
> requirements. Who is the subscriber in the reseller relation? We
> believe this to be the key holder. However, the language is unclear.
> I think we followed the letter and spirit of the BRs here, but I'd
> like feedback, perhaps leading to a ballot that clarifies the
> subscriber in a reseller relationship.

I'm not sure that resellers in particular make this more murky than
many other common scenarios, but if we come up with better and more
clearly defined terminology that never hurts anybody.


> This also brings up a ballot about the level of due diligence
> required for cert revocation. We generally believe that the private
> key or demonstration of domain control is sufficient to request
> revocation. Others are at the CAs discretion. Should we clarify what
> the due diligence looks like? Are there other things we should have
> done or been doing?

In this particular case I have a concern raised above (did Trustico
_really_ want revocation?) that I think could and perhaps should have
occurred to you at DigiCert and if it didn't I hope a lesson can be
learned there.


> What kind of transparency would the Mozilla community like around this
> issue? There aren't many more facts than I shared above, but there is
> a lot of speculation. Let me know what I can share to help alleviate
> confusion and answer questions.

It's not clear yet to me that it's a problem in this case, but where
you're provided with proof of control over keys and there's dispute
about whether you should have revoked the certs it seems like proof of
control (not the keys themselves) for a random sample of affected certs
is a good thing to show m.d.s.policy

In most settings I think that this proof would not necessarily be
helpful because it's going to need a neutral third party expert to
explain what it means, but m.d.s.policy is if nothing else brimming with
third party experts so it's welcome here.

google....@trustico.com

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Feb 28, 2018, 1:56:16 PM2/28/18
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Jeremy,

Today many of our customers experienced lengthy delays when attempting to contact us via phone, e-mail and live chat. The reason for the delays were due to an unexpected e-mail that DigiCert sent to our customers containing some inaccurate information. We were not informed that the e-mail would be sent and were caught by surprise. We had disabled this e-mail within your control panel and opted to send our own notices, though you took it upon yourselves to send my personal details to 20,000 customers.

We didn't authorise DigiCert to contact our customers and we didn't approve the content of their e-mail. At no time had any private keys been compromised, nor had we ever informed to you that any private keys had been compromised. During our many discussions over the past week we put it to you that we believe Symantec to have operated our account in a manner whereby it had been compromised. Your usage of the word compromise has been twisted by you to your benefit and is absolutely defamatory.

We believe the orders placed via our Symantec account were at risk and were poorly managed. We have been questioning Symantec without response as to concerning items for about a year. Symantec simply ignored our concerns and appeared to bury them under the next issue that arose.

There are a range of issues that Trustico intends to investigate via legal means.

In good conscience we decided it wasn't ideal to have any active SSL Certificates on the Symantec systems, nor any that didn't meet our stringent security requirements. Our concerns also relate to the upcoming distrust of all Symantec SSL Certificate brands within Google Chrome and the reasoning behind it. The same management team responsible for that situation is duly employed at DigiCert and are fully managing our account, causing grave concern on our part as it appears to be business as usual with a new name. We were also a victim whereby Symantec mis-issued SSL Certificates owned by us, subsequently we were asked to keep the matter quiet, under a confidentially notice.

We had implemented a system to ensure that all customers would receive a replacement SSL Certificate, though today it had failed to perform this function.

In our view it is absolutely critical that an SSL Certificate performs its intended function. Symantec's issue with Google appeared to seal that deal, whereby they will all eventually fail due to distrust. In accordance with CAB Forum guidelines we acted to immediately revoke active SSL Certificates whereby trust was questionable.

Trustico absolutely distrusts the Symantec brand due to the issues that forced Symantec into having to hand over its entire authentication business to an alternate CA and a range of issues beforehand. Though, Symantec was ultimately acquired by DigiCert - though now DigiCert appears to be influenced by the Symantec management team - that to date still is managing our account. Trustico stopped offering the Symantec brands early February after a meeting with your Symantec management team, whereby they had disclosed to us that various reckless issues had occurred (recording available).

We realize that this mass revocation is bothersome and time consuming for all that have been affected. We're working to contact all customers to get orders replaced as priority and working through a backlog of enquiries.

Unfortunately, things didn't go very well for us today and we are extremely sorry for all the confusion and inconvenience that has been caused. We were relying on systems that would easily replace and issue SSL Certificates automatically, though that didn't occur and we ended up in quite a mess. DigiCert didn't work with us to understand the issues and resolve them, we felt we were at a dead end.

We'll be following up again shortly with an update surrounding what occurred and more information about where we experienced failures. In the meantime, our staff are concentrating on getting SSL Certificates issued as quickly as possible from a reputable and trusted CA.

As for the question of who is the subscriber, well ultimately that came down to the agreement that we had made with you and the agreement on the website. The conditions of the subscriber agreement were not honoured by you when it came to our requests anyway – so it’s hard to comment on who you refer to be a subscriber – even though your subscriber agreement clearly states that the reseller is the subscriber in our case. We instigated revocation of SSL Certificates as per your subscriber agreement.

I shall like to further note that DigiCert terminated our contract on Sunday 25th February immediately after we put to you that we intended to seek a legal opinion in respect to the operation of our account and security concerns.

Jeremy, the evidence that we have at hand as per the issues surrounding the revocation is somewhat different to what you are disclosing here today. As one of Symantec's former largest partners - my personal opinion and personal experience is that Symantec is a company that thrives on recklessness and one that I wouldn't trust nor deal with.

Zane Lucas

Ryan Sleevi

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Feb 28, 2018, 1:58:24 PM2/28/18
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On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 12:37 PM, Jeremy Rowley via dev-security-policy <
dev-secur...@lists.mozilla.org> wrote:

> On February 2nd, 2018, we received a request from Trustico to mass revoke
> all certificates that had been ordered by end users through Trustico.
> Unfortunately, the email was not sent to the appropriate certificate
> problem
> reporting channels and did not surface immediately so we're delayed in
> sharing the concerns and information. Once we were alerted, the team kicked
> off a debate that I wanted to bring to the CAB Forum. Basically, our
> position is that resellers do not constitute subscribers under the Baseline
> Requirement's definitions (Section 1.6.1). As such, we needed to confirm
> that either the key was compromised or that they revocation was authorized
> by the domain holder (the subscriber) prior to revoking the certificate.
> The
> certificates were not alleged as compromised at that time.
>

I think there's a little nuance to this in the general case (e.g. consider
"Resllers" who are also the hosting provider, and thus constitute the
Applicant/Subscriber even when they're not the domain holder, but
authorized by them), but based on this specific case, I think this sounds
like a correct determination.

I think the biggest question is who agreed to the terms - Trustico or the
end-user - and that mostly impacts the rest of the decision here. Further,
did Trustico warrant on behalf of the user that the user agreed to the
terms (in which case, I would think it's a bit of a copout, and it's really
Trustico agreeing, thus the Subscriber), or did DigiCert have direct
communication with the user on the basis of Trustico's introduction (in
which case, yeah, the Subscriber is the user)

Anyway, just highlighting it here as perhaps not a uniform consensus, but
perhaps not as material as what follows.


> On 2/27/2018, at my request for proof of compromise, we received a file
> with
> 23k private keys matched to specific Trustico customers. This definitely
> triggered our 24-hour revocation processing requirement under 4.9.1.1.3.
> Once we received the keys, we confirmed that these were indeed the matching
> private keys for the reported certificates. We will be revoking these
> certificates today (February 28th, 2018).
>

I think all of this sounds reasonable, no different than a security
researcher (or random member of the public) who were to claim compromise
with no evidence of that.


> Currently, we are only revoking the certificates if we received the private
> keys. There are additional certificates the reseller requested to have
> revoked, but DigiCert has decided to disregard that request until we
> receive
> proof of compromise or more information about the cause of this incident.
>

For the same reason that "Jane Random User" should not be able to cause
revocation merely by assertion, I think that sounds reasonable.


> This raises a question about the MDSP policy and CAB Forum requirements.
> Who
> is the subscriber in the reseller relation? We believe this to be the key
> holder. However, the language is unclear. I think we followed the letter
> and
> spirit of the BRs here, but I'd like feedback, perhaps leading to a ballot
> that clarifies the subscriber in a reseller relationship.
>

I think the question here is less about who is the Applicant, but who is
the Applicant Representative. If the Reseller is signing/agreeing the
request on behalf of the applicant, or the Subscriber Agreement, they're
the Applicant Representative and ostensibly should be taken as authorized.

I think the gap here is we have this notion of Applicant/Applicant
Representative prior to the issuance - in which some 3P may agree to a
Subscriber Agreement (or warrant agreement), yet claim the Subscriber is
somehow a different entity or that Representative is no longer bound in
scope. That seems pretty troubling - both in terms of how the Applicant
Representative is verified as authorized (which seems fundamentally what a
Reseller who agrees to a ToS is) - and as to how revocation works.


> This also brings up a ballot about the level of due diligence required for
> cert revocation. We generally believe that the private key or demonstration
> of domain control is sufficient to request revocation. Others are at the
> CAs
> discretion. Should we clarify what the due diligence looks like? Are there
> other things we should have done or been doing?
>

I think Wayne's still looking at the revocation space (and I'm much belated
in my offering feedback), but I think one of the gaps is one we've seen
come up with Google domains and Let's Encrypt. And while I share these
stories, to be clear, I don't think LE has done anything wrong in issuance
or handling of it - it just is a good demonstration of the nuance that any
such clarification should consider.

Consider https://crt.sh/?id=245397170 , which was a google.tg certificate
obtained from LE following an apparent Registry compromise. Prior to the
compromise, Google operated google.tg, during the compromise, an unknown
third-party did, and following the compromise, Google again
operated/controlled google.tg.

When it came to requesting revocation, however, this highlighted a
challenge. Let's Encrypt has several defined methods for validation - the
HTTP-01 method, TLS-SNI-01 (at the time), and DNS-01. Google services -
particularly those hosting/serving google.tg - do not support any of those
methods (by somewhat intentional design). Google also did not control the
private key - naturally.

Based on the evidence Google provided - and, importantly, through
consultation with 3P - LE was able to determine the .tg compromise and
revoke the certificate.

A mandate of 'due diligence' that suggested demonstration of private key,
or of using LE's preferred methods, would have prevented that revocation. A
model that offers CA significant flexibility and discretion does have the
downside of the CA choosing to *refuse* to revoke, and them claim that they
were operating within the bounds of the Baseline Requirements.

Thus, any form of requiring due diligence has to consider an adversarial
model of CAs (sorry Jeremy!), in which the CA may have incentives, whether
real or imagined, not to revoke and/or to impose hardship on the domain
operator. The current structure favors the 'victims' in the example I just
gave, but I think also presents risks - as you raise - of 3P requesting
revocation without authorization. I don't know if or how we'll be able to
square those somewhat competing interests, but I think it's worth keeping
in the consideration.

If we stretch the idea out further, one could imagine that CAs must support
'all' validation methods to authenticate a revocation request. But now that
shifts the burden from the victim (in having to prove control) onto the CA
- which is its own set of tradeoffs. It also introduces new risk - in which
adversaries may use a weaker method of authentication maliciously (for
example, consider 3.2.2.4.8, in which anyone sharing an IP could cause the
revocation of a cert of anyone else sharing that IP)

In any event, I'm hugely appreciative of the details you've taken to share
and be transparent with the community regarding this. This is an incredibly
valuable discussion to have, and more importantly, and valuable level of
transparency regarding the incident, given the amount of apparent
misinformation and confusion regarding this flying about.

Peter Bowen

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Feb 28, 2018, 2:14:19 PM2/28/18
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On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 9:37 AM, Jeremy Rowley via dev-security-policy
<dev-secur...@lists.mozilla.org> wrote:
> Once we were alerted, the team kicked
> off a debate that I wanted to bring to the CAB Forum. Basically, our
> position is that resellers do not constitute subscribers under the Baseline
> Requirement's definitions (Section 1.6.1). As such, we needed to confirm
> that either the key was compromised or that they revocation was authorized
> by the domain holder (the subscriber) prior to revoking the certificate. The
> certificates were not alleged as compromised at that time.

> This raises a question about the MDSP policy and CAB Forum requirements. Who
> is the subscriber in the reseller relation? We believe this to be the key
> holder. However, the language is unclear. I think we followed the letter and
> spirit of the BRs here, but I'd like feedback, perhaps leading to a ballot
> that clarifies the subscriber in a reseller relationship.

For certs with subject identity information (commonly called IV, OV,
and EV certs), there is no question about the subscriber. The
Subscriber is the entity identified in the subject: "The Subject is
either the Subscriber or a device under the control and operation of
the Subscriber."

For certificates without subject identity information (DV
certificates), the certificate does not list the subscriber. However
the CA clearly knows the subscriber, as the subscriber is the "natural
person or Legal Entity to whom a Certificate is issued and who is
legally bound by a Subscriber Agreement or Terms of Use"

In some cases the "reseller" might be the subscriber if the reseller
is a hosting company and is the one that accepts the subscriber
agreement but in the traditional reseller model their customer is the
subscriber as the reseller's customer is the one accepting the
subscriber agreement.

Given that DigiCert appears to have contact information for the
Trustico customers, that suggests that the Trustico customer is likely
the subscriber, but looking at IV/OV/EV certificates (if any) should
tell for sure.

Thanks,
Peter

timx...@gmail.com

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Feb 28, 2018, 2:14:42 PM2/28/18
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We have purchased thousands of certificates using Trustico as a reseller within the last years.

Back in these days Trustico created CSR / Private Key pair within their online platform (Yes, you read it right - you can create CSR/Private Key on their webpage !!!) which was the default at this time and it is still possible to do so in their web interface.

Regarding to our investigation they were only able to send the private keys for those certificates where the CSR / private key pair were generated within their online private key generating tool. This has to be the 23k amount of keys which Jeremy received.

I am not aware of guidelines of the CA/B forum but keeping 23.000 (!) private keys at your online platform seems more than alarming and is careless and the public should be made aware of this fact.

We do not know all aspects of parties involved but we suspect that this could be for economic reasons, because Trustico is offering a voucher for Comodo certificates in order to replace the revoked RapidSSL/GeoTrust/DigiCerts certificates now.
Furthermore they are spreading FUD regarding the upcoming distrust in Google Chrome release and trying to force their customers to get a Comodo or Trustico-branded certificate.

Very important: Do not revoke any certificate where Trustico is not able to provide the private key!!!

Jeremy Rowley

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Feb 28, 2018, 2:21:02 PM2/28/18
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John Merrill

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Feb 28, 2018, 2:22:46 PM2/28/18
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Let's talk it through with Mike J as this will end up in court

Jeremy Rowley

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Feb 28, 2018, 2:28:20 PM2/28/18
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I agree with the OV, EV, and IV. Admittedly, DV certs, which constitute almost
all the certs, are relatively new to DigiCert so that's partly where the
question arises. We identified it as the key holder or the domain holder.
Hence, we'd revoke with confirmation of a domain validation. The reseller
could be the subscriber, but I'm not sure how we tell with DV certs. This is
especially with legacy Symantec customers where we are still trying to
establish the personal relationship and understand their use cases,
communication expectations, etc.

Wayne Thayer

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Feb 28, 2018, 2:30:00 PM2/28/18
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On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 12:13 PM, timx84039--- via dev-security-policy <
dev-secur...@lists.mozilla.org> wrote:

>
> Regarding to our investigation they were only able to send the private
> keys for those certificates where the CSR / private key pair were generated
> within their online private key generating tool. This has to be the 23k
> amount of keys which Jeremy received.
>
> I am not aware of guidelines of the CA/B forum but keeping 23.000 (!)
> private keys at your online platform seems more than alarming and is
> careless and the public should be made aware of this fact.
>
> I agree with this sentiment, but I also think it creates another policy
question with respect to DigiCert's decision to revoke due to key
compromise: were these 23,000 keys really compromised? The BR definition of
Key Compromise is:

A Private Key is said to be compromised if its value has been disclosed to
an unauthorized person, an unauthorized person has had access to it, or
there exists a practical technique by which an unauthorized person may
discover its value. A Private Key is also considered compromised if methods
have been developed that can easily calculate it based on the Public Key
(such as a Debian weak key, see http://wiki.debian.org/SSLkeys) or if there
is clear evidence that the specific method used to generate the Private Key
was flawed.

In this case it might be reasonable to argue that Trustico was unauthorized
(unless their customers agreed to key escrow when using the online key
generation tool). However, in the case of a hosting provider reselling
certificates for use on their platform, it's required that they hold the
private key and we don't consider that a Key Compromise.

- Wayne

Alex Gaynor

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Feb 28, 2018, 2:32:28 PM2/28/18
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I would say that at the point that Trustico emailed them to DigiCert they
necessarily became compromised -- while Trustico may (or may not) have been
authorized to escrowing the keys by the subscriber, the subscriber did not
authorize them to be emailed around, presumably.

Alex
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Peter Bowen

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Feb 28, 2018, 2:37:59 PM2/28/18
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On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 11:29 AM, Wayne Thayer via dev-security-policy
Jeremy's email suggests that the keys were emailed to him. If this is
accurate, then it is reasonable that they have been "disclosed to an
unauthorized person". The only other alternative, again assuming
Jeremy did receive the keys, is to determine that he was authorized by
the subscriber to access the keys.

Thanks,
Peter

Jeremy Rowley

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Feb 28, 2018, 2:41:06 PM2/28/18
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The end user agreed to the subscriber agreement, not Trustico. Our analysis follows what Peter B. posted – the subscriber is the “natural person or Legal Entity to whom a Certificate is issued and who is legally bound by a Subscriber Agreement or Terms of Use"—which in this case was Trustico’s customers. In addition, we felt that given (1) the number of certificates Trustico was asking us to mass-revoke and (2) the lack of any substantiation of why Trustico thought the certs were “compromised,” we needed more information before revoking. At the minimum, it warranted alerting the contact for each certificate that revocation was imminent.



I also agree that there’s no problem with the way or that the keys were provided to DigiCert for cert revocation. I certainly don’t want to discourage revocation of compromised certs! My main question is how do you handle these things? The process at scale should not be different if a reseller requests revocation compared to any other security researcher. The question is how you handle the this volume of revocations when its happen? I’ve never received a revocation request of this magnitude before so I’m seeking the wisdom of the community in what we do.



I’m happy to share any of the details I can.



Jeremy





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To: Jeremy Rowley <jeremy...@digicert.com>
Cc: mozilla-dev-s...@lists.mozilla.org
Subject: Re: How do you handle mass revocation requests?







On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 12:37 PM, Jeremy Rowley via dev-security-policy <dev-secur...@lists.mozilla.org <mailto:dev-secur...@lists.mozilla.org> > wrote:

On February 2nd, 2018, we received a request from Trustico to mass revoke
all certificates that had been ordered by end users through Trustico.
Unfortunately, the email was not sent to the appropriate certificate problem
reporting channels and did not surface immediately so we're delayed in
sharing the concerns and information. Once we were alerted, the team kicked
off a debate that I wanted to bring to the CAB Forum. Basically, our
position is that resellers do not constitute subscribers under the Baseline
Requirement's definitions (Section 1.6.1). As such, we needed to confirm
that either the key was compromised or that they revocation was authorized
by the domain holder (the subscriber) prior to revoking the certificate. The
certificates were not alleged as compromised at that time.



I think there's a little nuance to this in the general case (e.g. consider "Resllers" who are also the hosting provider, and thus constitute the Applicant/Subscriber even when they're not the domain holder, but authorized by them), but based on this specific case, I think this sounds like a correct determination.



I think the biggest question is who agreed to the terms - Trustico or the end-user - and that mostly impacts the rest of the decision here. Further, did Trustico warrant on behalf of the user that the user agreed to the terms (in which case, I would think it's a bit of a copout, and it's really Trustico agreeing, thus the Subscriber), or did DigiCert have direct communication with the user on the basis of Trustico's introduction (in which case, yeah, the Subscriber is the user)



Anyway, just highlighting it here as perhaps not a uniform consensus, but perhaps not as material as what follows.



On 2/27/2018, at my request for proof of compromise, we received a file with
23k private keys matched to specific Trustico customers. This definitely
triggered our 24-hour revocation processing requirement under 4.9.1.1.3.
Once we received the keys, we confirmed that these were indeed the matching
private keys for the reported certificates. We will be revoking these
certificates today (February 28th, 2018).



I think all of this sounds reasonable, no different than a security researcher (or random member of the public) who were to claim compromise with no evidence of that.



Currently, we are only revoking the certificates if we received the private
keys. There are additional certificates the reseller requested to have
revoked, but DigiCert has decided to disregard that request until we receive
proof of compromise or more information about the cause of this incident.



For the same reason that "Jane Random User" should not be able to cause revocation merely by assertion, I think that sounds reasonable.



This raises a question about the MDSP policy and CAB Forum requirements. Who
is the subscriber in the reseller relation? We believe this to be the key
holder. However, the language is unclear. I think we followed the letter and
spirit of the BRs here, but I'd like feedback, perhaps leading to a ballot
that clarifies the subscriber in a reseller relationship.



I think the question here is less about who is the Applicant, but who is the Applicant Representative. If the Reseller is signing/agreeing the request on behalf of the applicant, or the Subscriber Agreement, they're the Applicant Representative and ostensibly should be taken as authorized.



I think the gap here is we have this notion of Applicant/Applicant Representative prior to the issuance - in which some 3P may agree to a Subscriber Agreement (or warrant agreement), yet claim the Subscriber is somehow a different entity or that Representative is no longer bound in scope. That seems pretty troubling - both in terms of how the Applicant Representative is verified as authorized (which seems fundamentally what a Reseller who agrees to a ToS is) - and as to how revocation works.



This also brings up a ballot about the level of due diligence required for
cert revocation. We generally believe that the private key or demonstration
of domain control is sufficient to request revocation. Others are at the CAs
discretion. Should we clarify what the due diligence looks like? Are there
other things we should have done or been doing?



I think Wayne's still looking at the revocation space (and I'm much belated in my offering feedback), but I think one of the gaps is one we've seen come up with Google domains and Let's Encrypt. And while I share these stories, to be clear, I don't think LE has done anything wrong in issuance or handling of it - it just is a good demonstration of the nuance that any such clarification should consider.



Consider https://crt.sh/?id=245397170 , which was a google.tg <http://google.tg> certificate obtained from LE following an apparent Registry compromise. Prior to the compromise, Google operated google.tg <http://google.tg> , during the compromise, an unknown third-party did, and following the compromise, Google again operated/controlled google.tg <http://google.tg> .



When it came to requesting revocation, however, this highlighted a challenge. Let's Encrypt has several defined methods for validation - the HTTP-01 method, TLS-SNI-01 (at the time), and DNS-01. Google services - particularly those hosting/serving google.tg <http://google.tg> - do not support any of those methods (by somewhat intentional design). Google also did not control the private key - naturally.

Ryan Sleevi

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Feb 28, 2018, 2:56:04 PM2/28/18
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On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 2:40 PM, Jeremy Rowley via dev-security-policy <
dev-secur...@lists.mozilla.org> wrote:

> The end user agreed to the subscriber agreement, not Trustico. Our
> analysis follows what Peter B. posted – the subscriber is the “natural
> person or Legal Entity to whom a Certificate is issued and who is legally
> bound by a Subscriber Agreement or Terms of Use"—which in this case was
> Trustico’s customers. In addition, we felt that given (1) the number of
> certificates Trustico was asking us to mass-revoke and (2) the lack of any
> substantiation of why Trustico thought the certs were “compromised,” we
> needed more information before revoking. At the minimum, it warranted
> alerting the contact for each certificate that revocation was imminent.
>

Assuming Trustico sent the keys to DigiCert, it definitely sounds like even
if Trustico was authorized to hold the keys (which is a troubling argument,
given all things), they themselves compromised the keys of their customers,
and revocation is both correct and necessary. That is, whether or not
Trustico believed they were compromised before, they compromised their
customers keys by sending them, and it's both correct and accurate to
notify the Subscribers that their keys have been compromised by their
Reseller.

If your Reseller compromises your keys capriciously, it sounds like it
might be time to find a new Reseller.

I also agree that there’s no problem with the way or that the keys were
> provided to DigiCert for cert revocation. I certainly don’t want to
> discourage revocation of compromised certs! My main question is how do you
> handle these things? The process at scale should not be different if a
> reseller requests revocation compared to any other security researcher. The
> question is how you handle the this volume of revocations when its happen?
> I’ve never received a revocation request of this magnitude before so I’m
> seeking the wisdom of the community in what we do.
>

For the remaining certificates, it sounds like, based on the evidence, that
Trustico has no authority to request revocation for those remaining, and it
would be monumentally hostile/unwise of them to subject that their
customers to do that.

To the more general case - how to handle mass revocations - this seems
similar to when Heartbleed hit, and the lessons from then apply now:

- CAs should design their systems and be prepared for mass revocations on
sufficient demonstration
- Sharding out CRLs, for example, to ensure no CRL becomes unreasonably
large (say, >64KB, which is many clients' limits), using critical
issuingDistributionPoint extensions on the CRLs and hosting at unique URLs
- Designing the OCSP serving infrastructure to be able to handle a large
influx of revocations
- Reducing the overall lifetime of certificates to minimize the total
number of ongoing (OCSP, CRL) signatures that would need to be produced

- Site Operators should design their systems to be prepared for sudden
revocation
- Don't introduce unnecessary third parties (such as Resellers), when
possible
- Invest in automation such that certificate replacement is
automated/automatic
- Corollary: Have multiple CAs support the automation mechanisms used
(such as standard automation methods) in the event it is the CA compromised
- Corollary: Support multiple automation validation methods (such as DNS
+ HTTP + TLS) in the event it is the automation method that is compromised

Jeremy Rowley

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Feb 28, 2018, 3:04:35 PM2/28/18
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The keys were emailed to me. I'm trying to get a project together where we
self-sign a cert with each of the keys and publish them. That way there's
evidence to the community of the compromise without simply listing 23k
private keys. Someone on Reddit suggested that, which I really appreciated.
I think the main hold up in this plan is, which websites do we want to call
out?

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On Behalf Of Peter Bowen via dev-security-policy
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2018 12:38 PM
To: Wayne Thayer <wth...@mozilla.com>
Cc: timx...@gmail.com; mozilla-dev-security-policy
<mozilla-dev-s...@lists.mozilla.org>
Subject: Re: How do you handle mass revocation requests?

Ryan Hurst

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Feb 28, 2018, 3:24:32 PM2/28/18
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On Wednesday, February 28, 2018 at 11:56:04 AM UTC-8, Ryan Sleevi wrote:
> Assuming Trustico sent the keys to DigiCert, it definitely sounds like even
> if Trustico was authorized to hold the keys (which is a troubling argument,
> given all things), they themselves compromised the keys of their customers,
> and revocation is both correct and necessary. That is, whether or not
> Trustico believed they were compromised before, they compromised their
> customers keys by sending them, and it's both correct and accurate to
> notify the Subscribers that their keys have been compromised by their
> Reseller.

That seems to be the case to me as well.

It also seems that this situation should result in the UAs and/or CABFORUM re0visit section 6.1.2 (https://github.com/cabforum/documents/blob/master/docs/BR.md) in the BRs.

Specifically, this section states:

```
Parties other than the Subscriber SHALL NOT archive the Subscriber Private Key without authorization by the Subscriber.

If the CA or any of its designated RAs generated the Private Key on behalf of the Subscriber, then the CA SHALL encrypt the Private Key for transport to the Subscriber.
```

In this case, TrustIco is not the subscriber, and there is no indication in their terms and conditions (https://www.trustico.com/terms/terms-and-conditions.php) that they are authorized to archive the private key. Yet clearly if they were able to provide 20k+ private keys to DigiCert they are archiving them. This text seems to cover this case clearly but as worded I do not see how audits would catch this behavior. I think it may make sense for the CAs to be responsible for demonstrating how they and other non-subscribers in the lifecycle flow handle this case.

Additionally, it seems if the private keys were provided to DigiCert in a way they were verifiable by them they may have been stored in a non-encrypted fashion, at a minimum they were likley not generated and protected on an HSM. The BRs should probably be revised to specify some minimum level of security to be provided in these cases of for these cases to be simply disallowed altogether.

Finally, the associated text speaks to RAs but not to the non-subscriber (reseller) case, this gap should be addressed minimally.

Matthew Hardeman

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Feb 28, 2018, 3:29:34 PM2/28/18
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I would echo Mr. Gaynor's point.

While it's perhaps a pedantic distinction, the private keys are definitely
compromised now and were the moment that Trustico provided the keys to
Digicert, even if Trustico is defined to be the original authorized
recipient.

The CA is explicitly not to be in possession of these private keys and if
Digicert's assertions are correct, Digicert now holds the private keys.

It would seem that revocation is unquestionably the appropriate remedy at
this time, despite whether or not Trustico understands what they requested.

On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 1:32 PM, Alex Gaynor via dev-security-policy <
dev-secur...@lists.mozilla.org> wrote:

> I would say that at the point that Trustico emailed them to DigiCert they
> necessarily became compromised -- while Trustico may (or may not) have been
> authorized to escrowing the keys by the subscriber, the subscriber did not
> authorize them to be emailed around, presumably.
>
> Alex
>
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 2:29 PM, Wayne Thayer via dev-security-policy <
> > - Wayne

Matthew Hardeman

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Feb 28, 2018, 4:08:32 PM2/28/18
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Did this whole thing start because someone at Trustico wanted to accelerate the process of getting their resold Symantec certificates reissued under a DigiCert trust path?

And somehow some misinformed soul imagined creating a revocation crisis would somehow help achieve that goal without significant consequences?

If so, that surfaces a significant potential problem with the reseller ecosystem, which as I understand it has largely gone unaudited as yet (providing the CA actually provides the validation functions). It shows what havoc a reseller can cause from poor judgement.

Then there's the issue of a reseller holding onto the private keys indefinitely...

kevin.b...@gmail.com

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Feb 28, 2018, 4:22:08 PM2/28/18
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It’s absolutely incredible that Trustico has 23k private keys, and just attached them to an email. This suggests serious flaws in the CA/reseller relationship.

uri...@gmail.com

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Feb 28, 2018, 4:23:59 PM2/28/18
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Is Trustico's storage of private keys related to this security report from a few months back (which did not appear to ever have been fully investigated...)?

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.security.policy/CEww8w9q2zE/F_bzX1guCQAJ

Does Digicert have (or will it have) some sort of process in place to prevent resellers from storing private keys so casually?

Nick Lamb

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Feb 28, 2018, 4:37:54 PM2/28/18
to dev-secur...@lists.mozilla.org, Jeremy Rowley
On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 20:03:51 +0000
Jeremy Rowley via dev-security-policy
<dev-secur...@lists.mozilla.org> wrote:

> The keys were emailed to me. I'm trying to get a project together
> where we self-sign a cert with each of the keys and publish them.
> That way there's evidence to the community of the compromise without
> simply listing 23k private keys. Someone on Reddit suggested that,
> which I really appreciated.

That's probably me (tialaramex).

Anyway, if it is me you're referring to, I suggested using the private
keys to issue a bogus CSR. CSRs are signed, proving that whoever made
them had the corresponding private key but they avoid the confusion
that comes from DigiCert (or its employees) issuing bogus certs.
Everybody reading m.d.s.policy can still see that a self-signed cert is
harmless and not an attack, but it may be harder to explain in a
soundbite. Maybe more technically able contributors disagree ?

Ryan Sleevi

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Feb 28, 2018, 4:41:00 PM2/28/18
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On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 4:23 PM, urijah--- via dev-security-policy <
dev-secur...@lists.mozilla.org> wrote:

> Is Trustico's storage of private keys related to this security report from
> a few months back (which did not appear to ever have been fully
> investigated...)?
>

It was fully investigated. There's no evidence to suggest relation, other
than there's no way to effectively make rules on that (other than the
threat of revocation for breach of contract, which you can only demonstrate
when you can prove it, which you'd revoke anyways)


>
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.security.policy/CEww8w9q2zE/F_
> bzX1guCQAJ
>
> Does Digicert have (or will it have) some sort of process in place to
> prevent resellers from storing private keys so casually?


While well-intentioned, I don't think this is really a reasonable thing to
ask/expect. If they had contractual requirements on resellers, it just
means you'd have new entities spring up that are equivalent to resellers
without the requirements.

Would we similarly require that hosting providers don't store the private
keys? It's the same conceptual issue.

Jeremy Rowley

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Feb 28, 2018, 4:43:20 PM2/28/18
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We don't have a process to prevent third parties from storing private keys.
I'm not sure how that would even work considering the approved third-party
use cases vs. non-approved use cases. In fact, I'd postulate there's
nothing wrong with Trustico holding the private keys if they were hosting
the site or providing CDN services for all of these sites. The issue is
Trustico alleged compromise of the certificates and sent us the private keys
believed compromised in support. There were a lot of them.

This is a mass revocation without any explanation of what went wrong or why.
The reseller mentioned and proved compromise, but there's no way to see if
what happened, whether the issue was mitigated, or how it's going to be
prevented from happening again. Basically, we're revoking 50k people without
being able to explain why (well, other than the key was compromised).

-----Original Message-----
From: dev-security-policy
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On Behalf Of urijah--- via dev-security-policy
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2018 2:24 PM
To: mozilla-dev-s...@lists.mozilla.org
Subject: Re: How do you handle mass revocation requests?

Is Trustico's storage of private keys related to this security report from a
few months back (which did not appear to ever have been fully
investigated...)?

https://clicktime.symantec.com/a/1/gUJtIwxyRazHoxd9FIcS40cx3EykeGjrwv4urOpHj
u0=?d=-1kl6pTbi8aU0HfRh9ZNP86TCSEsjm5TvumKZsLlfO6tgKV5N4_MitDAK64FGwutmiXu3D
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cER_Pj3TmyKGPFFw_SzUky&u=https%3A%2F%2Fgroups.google.com%2Fd%2Fmsg%2Fmozilla
.dev.security.policy%2FCEww8w9q2zE%2FF_bzX1guCQAJ

Does Digicert have (or will it have) some sort of process in place to
prevent resellers from storing private keys so casually?

On Wednesday, February 28, 2018 at 12:38:16 PM UTC-5, Jeremy Rowley wrote:
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Jeremy Rowley

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Feb 28, 2018, 4:44:16 PM2/28/18
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Yep - that was you. Thanks a ton. We posted 10 CSRs so far. Is this what you
were thinking?

-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Lamb <n...@tlrmx.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2018 2:37 PM
To: dev-secur...@lists.mozilla.org
Cc: Jeremy Rowley <jeremy...@digicert.com>
Subject: Re: How do you handle mass revocation requests?

Jeremy Rowley

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Feb 28, 2018, 4:50:46 PM2/28/18
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Posted to cab forum accidentally instead of Mozilla dev


Begin forwarded message:

From: Jeremy Rowley <jeremy...@digicert.com<mailto:jeremy...@digicert.com>>
Date: February 28, 2018 at 2:33:41 PM MST
To: Ryan Sleevi <sle...@google.com<mailto:sle...@google.com>>, Geoff Keating <geo...@apple.com<mailto:geo...@apple.com>>
Cc: CA/Browser Forum Public Discussion List <pub...@cabforum.org<mailto:pub...@cabforum.org>>
Subject: RE: [cabfpub] How do you handle mass revocation requests?

Here’s 10 CSRs that people can correlate with the CT logs. I’ll create another 100 or so to dispel any doubt.

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jomo

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Feb 28, 2018, 4:53:34 PM2/28/18
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> Basically, we're revoking 50k people without
> being able to explain why (well, other than the key was compromised).

Unless I misunderstood, you originally said you received 23k compromised
keys and are revoking those.

> Currently, we are only revoking the certificates if we received the private
> keys. There are additional certificates the reseller requested to have
> revoked, but DigiCert has decided to disregard that request until we receive
> proof of compromise or more information about the cause of this incident.
Has DigiCert received proof of compromise of all 50k in the meantime?
> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security-policy

Ryan Duff

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Feb 28, 2018, 4:55:37 PM2/28/18
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>From what I've read, it appears the situation here is that Trustico wanted to revoke all their customer certs from Digicert so they could do a mass migration to another CA (which is not a proper reason to revoke). When asked for proof by Digicert that the certificates were compromised and needed to be revoked, Trustico sent Digicert 23,000(!) private keys that *they had stored* due to the fact that they were generated by their web-based system in order to effectively *make them* compromised.

Am I missing anything?

Jeremy Rowley

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Feb 28, 2018, 4:58:21 PM2/28/18
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No. Just the 23k. Part of the reason I posted to the Mozilla list are open questions about whether Trusticos request is sufficient to trigger the br requirements. My gut is no, and sounds like the browsers agree. We’ll only revoke the remaining 27k if we receive evidence of compromise
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Ryan Sleevi

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Feb 28, 2018, 5:07:22 PM2/28/18
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Not the most efficient way, perhaps, but it works.

For example, the last CSR here corresponds to the SHA256(SPKI)
= bd753fb218dc69c8a9cafa99b4a99bfe15d0706d2800830058c8e890526e2c65, which
is https://crt.sh/?id=29463720 , which presently is unrevoked :)

To verify a CSR:
openssl req -in "${csr}" -noout -verify
(you get "Verify OK")

To output the Subject (to demonstrate DigiCert is in control)
openssl req -in "${csr}" -noout -subject
(you get "subject=/C=US/ST=Utah/L=Newbury/O=Jeremy/OU=Proof of key
compromise/CN=www.example.com")

To export the SPKI hash:
openssl req -in "${csr}" -noout -pubkey | openssl pkey -pubin -outform der
| openssl dgst -sha256 -hex
(you get
"bd753fb218dc69c8a9cafa99b4a99bfe15d0706d2800830058c8e890526e2c65", which
you can search for with https://crt.sh/?spkisha256= - e.g.
https://crt.sh/?spkisha256=bd753fb218dc69c8a9cafa99b4a99bfe15d0706d2800830058c8e890526e2c65
)

Matthew Hardeman

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Feb 28, 2018, 5:23:31 PM2/28/18
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On Wednesday, February 28, 2018 at 3:55:37 PM UTC-6, Ryan Duff wrote:
> >From what I've read, it appears the situation here is that Trustico wanted to revoke all their customer certs from Digicert so they could do a mass migration to another CA (which is not a proper reason to revoke). When asked for proof by Digicert that the certificates were compromised and needed to be revoked, Trustico sent Digicert 23,000(!) private keys that *they had stored* due to the fact that they were generated by their web-based system in order to effectively *make them* compromised.
>
> Am I missing anything?

That's kind of what I was thinking happened also.

Though a couple points to correct: The original issuing CA hierarchy is a Symantec trust path. This suggests that what they really wanted to occur was to trigger a 24 hour reissue of all of these certificates under a DigiCert trusted path -- since presumably any issuance at this point would fall under a DigiCert path.

Thus, within 24 hours, getting new certificates for all their customers under the new trust path. I'm going to guess someone at Trustico was getting annoyed at support calls regarding the migration and somehow assumed there'd be no consequences for pushing the issue by way of getting all those certificates revoked on "security" grounds.

As grounds for this belief, I submit the strangely worded statement of Mr. Rowley at the start of the thread "Later, the company shared with us that they held the private keys and the
certificates were compromised, trying to trigger the BR's 24-hour revocation
requirement".

That language seems to imply that there's a sense that the security / web PKI integrity aspect is less the matter at stake and more that the keys were located and sent over to create an impossible to ignore security issue forcing the 24 hour window.

My guess is that the person at Trustico wanted immediate reissuance of all of the Symantec certificates under the DigiCert trust paths and assumed:

1. That revoking the certs for security reasons would result in ASAP reissue (probably true in one-offs).
2. That the reissuance would happen in the DigiCert trust path (almost certainly true).
3. That they'd have a spike of support issues related to the reissuances, but that Trustico would have more control over the period over which they had to help customers migrate certificates and then the "bleeding" would stop.

Ryan Sleevi

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Feb 28, 2018, 5:29:41 PM2/28/18
to Matthew Hardeman, mozilla-dev-security-policy
On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 5:23 PM, Matthew Hardeman via dev-security-policy <
dev-secur...@lists.mozilla.org> wrote:

> On Wednesday, February 28, 2018 at 3:55:37 PM UTC-6, Ryan Duff wrote:
Note: The evidence on this thread does not support those assumptions. Among
other things, Trustico no longer is a reseller of Symantec (now DigiCert)
certificates, and has transitioned new issuance to Comodo. This was already
covered in
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.security.policy/wxX4Yv0E3Mk/jx6r9jlPAwAJ

Jeremy Rowley

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Feb 28, 2018, 5:44:50 PM2/28/18
to Matthew Hardeman, mozilla-dev-s...@lists.mozilla.org
1) Not all of the certificates being revoked use the Symantec hierarchy.
There are some certs that use the DigiCert replacement hierarchy. Not many
though.
2) Sorry my wording was strange. It almost always is. What I meant, is
Trustico specifically asked for the certs to be revoked within 24 hours as
required by the BRs. They said in the email they were triggering the 24 hour
requirement.
3) I really feel like a third point would be important, but I can't think of
one.

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Subject: Re: How do you handle mass revocation requests?

On Wednesday, February 28, 2018 at 3:55:37 PM UTC-6, Ryan Duff wrote:
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Matthew Hardeman

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Feb 28, 2018, 6:24:15 PM2/28/18
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On Wednesday, February 28, 2018 at 4:44:50 PM UTC-6, Jeremy Rowley wrote:
> 1) Not all of the certificates being revoked use the Symantec hierarchy.
> There are some certs that use the DigiCert replacement hierarchy. Not many
> though.
> 2) Sorry my wording was strange. It almost always is. What I meant, is
> Trustico specifically asked for the certs to be revoked within 24 hours as
> required by the BRs. They said in the email they were triggering the 24 hour
> requirement.
> 3) I really feel like a third point would be important, but I can't think of
> one.

So, I suspect what I and others in the community, like Mr. Duff, are wondering is: Why did Trustico go to such lengths to forcibly cause revocation of all of these certificates?

Because their initial request was for the revocation to occur and Digicert's initial position was that they are not the subscriber and so didn't have to revoke at their request they finally had someone put together the keys and re-request with the formal 24 hour deadline. That sounds like they went to significant effort to ensure the revocation would happen.

If the keys were truly leaked or otherwise compromised, it makes sense. If they were not and Trustico just pulled them out to trigger the 24 hour revocation window, why did they do that?

It seems like the only people they're (directly) hurting are their own customers. That's quite irrational behavior and generally businesses do not so overtly act against their own interest.

That sort of thing will scare a customer away from a reseller in a hurry.

So the question on my mind is, why would Trustico do that to their own customers? It can't just be about migration to a new CA, right? If so, wouldn't the certificates just be left valid and new certificates be issued by the new CA?

Forcing the 24 hour revocation window just creates a support nightmare for Trustico and Trustico's customers with no apparent upside, unless there was a real compromise.

Trustico's customers would seem to be entitled to know whether Trustico actually suffered a breach which compromises those customers.

Eric Mill

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Feb 28, 2018, 7:04:54 PM2/28/18
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Trustico doesn't seem to provide any hosting or CDN services that would
make use of the private key, nor do they appear to explicitly inform users
about the storage of this private key.

In their statement, they say they keep the private keys explicitly to
perform revocation as necessary:
https://www.trustico.com/news/2018/symantec-revocation/certificate-replacement.php
(archived: https://archive.is/0AnyR )

> These Private Keys are stored in cold storage, for the purpose of
revocation.

Their CSR/key generation form is here:
https://www.trustico.com/ssltools/create/csr-pem/create-a-new-csr-instantly.php
(archived: https://archive.is/hJV42 )

The storage of private keys appears to be done without the user's knowledge
or consent. And of course, only the keys they create through their form are
stored, so it is clearly not a necessary business function for most of
their certificate business.

Finally -- the CSR/key generation form page incorporates JavaScript from at
least 5 or 6 different companies (including ad servers), which would allow
any of those third parties (intentionally or through compromise of their
own) to capture generated keys. This is a reckless amount of exposure, to
the point that even if the keys were generated completely inside the
browser and never exposed to the server (which does not appear to be the
case), I would consider them compromised at the time of generation.

Given everything that's known, then regardless of who emailed whose
customers when and why, I think it's clear that Trustico compromised those
keys at _least_ at the time they were stored, if not at the time of
generation, and has been routinely compromising customer keys for years.
Emailing them to DigiCert only widened their exposure to more unauthorized
parties.

And given that there's no evidence that Trustico has acknowledged this
fact, or indicated any intent to change their business practices, then I
believe it's appropriate for all CAs to immediately suspend or terminate
their relationship with Trustico -- as any CA who continued doing business
with Trustico would now be knowingly allowing Trustico to compromise the
keys of the certificates issued under their hierarchy.

-- Eric

On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 3:24 PM, Ryan Hurst via dev-security-policy <
dev-secur...@lists.mozilla.org> wrote:

> On Wednesday, February 28, 2018 at 11:56:04 AM UTC-8, Ryan Sleevi wrote:
> > Assuming Trustico sent the keys to DigiCert, it definitely sounds like
> even
> > if Trustico was authorized to hold the keys (which is a troubling
> argument,
> > given all things), they themselves compromised the keys of their
> customers,
> > and revocation is both correct and necessary. That is, whether or not
> > Trustico believed they were compromised before, they compromised their
> > customers keys by sending them, and it's both correct and accurate to
> > notify the Subscribers that their keys have been compromised by their
> > Reseller.
>
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Ben Laurie

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Mar 1, 2018, 5:48:18 AM3/1/18
to Jeremy Rowley, ry...@sleevi.com, mozilla-dev-s...@lists.mozilla.org
On 28 February 2018 at 19:40, Jeremy Rowley via dev-security-policy <
dev-secur...@lists.mozilla.org> wrote:

> The end user agreed to the subscriber agreement, not Trustico. Our
> analysis follows what Peter B. posted – the subscriber is the “natural
> person or Legal Entity to whom a Certificate is issued and who is legally
> bound by a Subscriber Agreement or Terms of Use"—which in this case was
> Trustico’s customers. In addition, we felt that given (1) the number of
> certificates Trustico was asking us to mass-revoke and (2) the lack of any
> substantiation of why Trustico thought the certs were “compromised,” we
> needed more information before revoking. At the minimum, it warranted
> alerting the contact for each certificate that revocation was imminent.
>
>
>
> I also agree that there’s no problem with the way or that the keys were
> provided to DigiCert for cert revocation.


Agree with who? Both asking for the keys and providing them seems weird to
me.

The more secure thing to do would be to ask for proof of possession of the
keys, e.g. by signing a random string with them...


> I certainly don’t want to discourage revocation of compromised certs! My
> main question is how do you handle these things? The process at scale
> should not be different if a reseller requests revocation compared to any
> other security researcher. The question is how you handle the this volume
> of revocations when its happen? I’ve never received a revocation request of
> this magnitude before so I’m seeking the wisdom of the community in what we
> do.
>
>
>
> I’m happy to share any of the details I can.
>
>
>
> Jeremy
>
>
>
>
>
> From: Ryan Sleevi <ry...@sleevi.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2018 11:58 AM
> To: Jeremy Rowley <jeremy...@digicert.com>
> Cc: mozilla-dev-s...@lists.mozilla.org
> Subject: Re: How do you handle mass revocation requests?
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 12:37 PM, Jeremy Rowley via dev-security-policy <
> dev-secur...@lists.mozilla.org <mailto:dev-security-policy@
> lists.mozilla.org> > wrote:
>
> On February 2nd, 2018, we received a request from Trustico to mass revoke
> all certificates that had been ordered by end users through Trustico.
> Unfortunately, the email was not sent to the appropriate certificate
> problem
> reporting channels and did not surface immediately so we're delayed in
> sharing the concerns and information. Once we were alerted, the team kicked
> off a debate that I wanted to bring to the CAB Forum. Basically, our
> position is that resellers do not constitute subscribers under the Baseline
> Requirement's definitions (Section 1.6.1). As such, we needed to confirm
> that either the key was compromised or that they revocation was authorized
> by the domain holder (the subscriber) prior to revoking the certificate.
> The
> certificates were not alleged as compromised at that time.
>
>
>
> I think there's a little nuance to this in the general case (e.g. consider
> "Resllers" who are also the hosting provider, and thus constitute the
> Applicant/Subscriber even when they're not the domain holder, but
> authorized by them), but based on this specific case, I think this sounds
> like a correct determination.
>
>
>
> I think the biggest question is who agreed to the terms - Trustico or the
> end-user - and that mostly impacts the rest of the decision here. Further,
> did Trustico warrant on behalf of the user that the user agreed to the
> terms (in which case, I would think it's a bit of a copout, and it's really
> Trustico agreeing, thus the Subscriber), or did DigiCert have direct
> communication with the user on the basis of Trustico's introduction (in
> which case, yeah, the Subscriber is the user)
>
>
>
> Anyway, just highlighting it here as perhaps not a uniform consensus, but
> perhaps not as material as what follows.
>
>
>
> On 2/27/2018, at my request for proof of compromise, we received a file
> with
> 23k private keys matched to specific Trustico customers. This definitely
> triggered our 24-hour revocation processing requirement under 4.9.1.1.3.
> Once we received the keys, we confirmed that these were indeed the matching
> private keys for the reported certificates. We will be revoking these
> certificates today (February 28th, 2018).
>
>
>
> I think all of this sounds reasonable, no different than a security
> researcher (or random member of the public) who were to claim compromise
> with no evidence of that.
>
>
>
> Currently, we are only revoking the certificates if we received the private
> keys. There are additional certificates the reseller requested to have
> revoked, but DigiCert has decided to disregard that request until we
> receive
> proof of compromise or more information about the cause of this incident.
>
>
>
> For the same reason that "Jane Random User" should not be able to cause
> revocation merely by assertion, I think that sounds reasonable.
>
>
>
> This raises a question about the MDSP policy and CAB Forum requirements.
> Who
> is the subscriber in the reseller relation? We believe this to be the key
> holder. However, the language is unclear. I think we followed the letter
> and
> spirit of the BRs here, but I'd like feedback, perhaps leading to a ballot
> that clarifies the subscriber in a reseller relationship.
>
>
>
> I think the question here is less about who is the Applicant, but who is
> the Applicant Representative. If the Reseller is signing/agreeing the
> request on behalf of the applicant, or the Subscriber Agreement, they're
> the Applicant Representative and ostensibly should be taken as authorized.
>
>
>
> I think the gap here is we have this notion of Applicant/Applicant
> Representative prior to the issuance - in which some 3P may agree to a
> Subscriber Agreement (or warrant agreement), yet claim the Subscriber is
> somehow a different entity or that Representative is no longer bound in
> scope. That seems pretty troubling - both in terms of how the Applicant
> Representative is verified as authorized (which seems fundamentally what a
> Reseller who agrees to a ToS is) - and as to how revocation works.
>
>
>
> This also brings up a ballot about the level of due diligence required for
> cert revocation. We generally believe that the private key or demonstration
> of domain control is sufficient to request revocation. Others are at the
> CAs
> discretion. Should we clarify what the due diligence looks like? Are there
> other things we should have done or been doing?
>
>
>

Ben Laurie

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Mar 1, 2018, 5:51:14 AM3/1/18
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On 28 February 2018 at 21:37, Nick Lamb via dev-security-policy <
dev-secur...@lists.mozilla.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 20:03:51 +0000
> Jeremy Rowley via dev-security-policy
> <dev-secur...@lists.mozilla.org> wrote:
>
> > The keys were emailed to me. I'm trying to get a project together
> > where we self-sign a cert with each of the keys and publish them.
> > That way there's evidence to the community of the compromise without
> > simply listing 23k private keys. Someone on Reddit suggested that,
> > which I really appreciated.
>
> That's probably me (tialaramex).
>
> Anyway, if it is me you're referring to, I suggested using the private
> keys to issue a bogus CSR. CSRs are signed, proving that whoever made
> them had the corresponding private key but they avoid the confusion
> that comes from DigiCert (or its employees) issuing bogus certs.
> Everybody reading m.d.s.policy can still see that a self-signed cert is
> harmless and not an attack, but it may be harder to explain in a
> soundbite. Maybe more technically able contributors disagree ?
>

Seems to me that signing something that has nothing to do with certs is a
safer option - e.g. sign random string+Subject DN.

Rob Stradling

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Mar 1, 2018, 7:20:03 AM3/1/18
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And also throw in some transparency...

https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/trans/WLFmIyaH4BJo77ZJDinKJcylOcg

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Email: Rob.St...@ComodoCA.com
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Office: +441274730505
ComodoCA.com

Michel Gre

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Mar 1, 2018, 8:51:16 AM3/1/18
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> I'd postulate there's
> nothing wrong with Trustico holding the private keys if they were hosting
> the site or providing CDN services for all of these sites.

I manage one of the affected domains. I can tell that in no way does Trustico hosts the site, nor provide us any CDN service.

We just purchased them a certificate 4 years ago and renewed it for 3 years in april 2015. Since we are usually quite busy we simply used their form to generate the key, the CSR, and get the certificate... So, Trustico should be actually Dontrustico. The worst is that the CEO himself publicly said (here!) that they HELD OUR PRIVATE KEYS!!! Come on. M. Zane Lucas, your staff sent me (after I asked them from an explanation regarding the Digicert's first email) a coupon for a "Trustico(r) Single Site" certificate, would you expect me to trust it after what YOU disclosed here? Looks like you just cut the branch your company was sitting on.

nic....@gmail.com

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