[security-dev 00885]: Re: CR 6847459 Created, P3 java/classes_secu Allow trust anchor self-issued intermediate version 1 and version 2 certificate

Sean Mullan Sean.Mullan at Sun.COM
Mon Jun 8 16:25:16 UTC 2009


Xuelei Fan wrote:

> Many, many Verisign root certs are V1, and the intermediate cert are V3.

I believe that is because many Verisign roots were issued in the late 1990's and 
perhaps v3 (published in 1996) had not gained enough support in the market yet.

I am wondering if you know if there are legitimate use cases of CAs still 
issuing v1/v2 root certificates? If not, I'm not sure it is really worth fixing 
this. Instead I would recommend fixing the regression test.

Thanks,
Sean



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