711594 - Add Hellenic Academic and Research Institutions RootCA 2011 certificate to NSS

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(NSS :: CA Certificates Code, task)

Description

[Kathleen Wilson]

Attachment: HARICA Root

This bug requests inclusion in the NSS root certificate store of the following certificate, owned by HARICA.

Friendly name: Hellenic Academic and Research Institutions RootCA 2011
Certificate location: http://www.harica.gr/certs/HaricaRootCA2011.der
SHA1 Fingerprint: FE:45:65:9B:79:03:5B:98:A1:61:B5:51:2E:AC:DA:58:09:48:22:4D
Trust flags: Websites, Email, Code
Test URL: https://www2.harica.gr/

This CA has been assessed in accordance with the Mozilla project guidelines, and the certificate approved for inclusion in bug #581901.

The steps are as follows:

1) A representative of the CA must confirm that all the data in this bug is correct, and that the correct certificate has been attached.

2) A Mozilla representative creates a patch with the new certificate, and provides a special test version of Firefox.

3) A representative of the CA uses the test version of Firefox to confirm (by adding a comment in this bug) that the certificate has been correctly imported and that websites work correctly.

4) The Mozilla representative requests that another Mozilla representative review the patch.

5) The Mozilla representative adds (commits) the patch to NSS, then closes this bug as RESOLVED FIXED.

6) At some time after that, various Mozilla products will move to using a version of NSS which contains the certificate(s). This process is mostly under the control of the release drivers for those products.

Comment 1

[Kathleen Wilson]

Dimitris, Please see step #1 above.

Comment 2

[Dimitris Zacharopoulos]

I confirm the information in this bug. The attached Root Certificate and its corresponding SHA1 fingerprint are correct.

Comment 3

[Kathleen Wilson]

Thanks for confirming that the data in this bug is correct.

Root inclusions are usually grouped and done as a batch when there is
either a large enough set of changes or about every 3 months.

At some point in the next 3 months a test build will be provided and this bug
will be updated to request that you test it. Since you are cc'd on this bug,
you will get notification via email when that happens.

Comment 4

[Brian Smith (:briansmith, :bsmith, use NEEDINFO?)]

We should not rush to add this to NSS. This root will be useless for ~99.99% of our users but exposes 100% of our users to risk. The inclusion of this root was never justified beyond noting that our inclusion policy (stupidly, IMO) doesn't require inclusions to be justified. I don't want to say too much more about this publicly, but I would like to have a serious discussion of it in private when I return from Beijing later this week, before we actually include it in NSS.

Comment 5

[Kai Engert [:KaiE:]]

A test version of Firefox is available at https://kuix.de/mozilla/tryserver-roots-20111218/
This test build contains your new root(s).

TODO, in this bug, please confirm that your root has been correctly added.

In particular check the correct trust flags (in cert manager you can use "edit trust" to view the trust settings you've received).

Please note this build is based on a nightly development/test version of Firefox. It might be unstable and have bugs. Please be careful.
It's best to use a "fresh, empty profile", for your testing. (Search the web how to use separate profiles, start the profile manager, with Firefox). 
This is also recommended to make sure you're not testing your own certificate database, but really this software with the embedded certs.

Comment 6

[Dimitris Zacharopoulos]

I just tested the nightly version (11.0a1, 2011-12-18) and HARICA Root CA 2011 is listed in the built-in CA objects correctly with the correct trust bits enabled.

Comment 7

[Kai Engert [:KaiE:]]

Will be fixed in NSS 3.13.2

Comment 8

[Brian Smith (:briansmith, :bsmith, use NEEDINFO?)]

Please revert this from NSS 3.13.2 until it we have time to properly discuss what to do with it. IMO, we were mistaken to approve this CA but I don't have time to have this fight right now as I have more important work to do. But, that doesn't mean I should lose by default.

Comment 9

[Kai Engert [:KaiE:]]

I will follow Kathleen's recommendation.

Comment 10

[Brian Smith (:briansmith, :bsmith, use NEEDINFO?)]

(In reply to Kai Engert (:kaie) from comment #9)
> I will follow Kathleen's recommendation.

It is a bad idea to force me to drop important work to deal with this unimportant issue. Please reconsider.

Comment 11

[Kathleen Wilson]

After much discussion it was determined that this change will remain in NSS 3.13.2.