Public Notary Transparency Working Group                       B. Laurie
Internet-Draft                                                A. Langley
Intended status: Standards Track                               E. Kasper
Expires: April 21, 2016                                       E. Messeri
                                                                  Google
                                                            R. Stradling
                                                                  Comodo
                                                        October 19, 2015


                        Certificate Transparency
                    draft-ietf-trans-rfc6962-bis-10

Abstract

   This document describes a protocol for publicly logging the existence
   of Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates as they are issued or
   observed, in a manner that allows anyone to audit certification
   authority (CA) activity and notice the issuance of suspect
   certificates as well as to audit the certificate logs themselves.
   The intent is that eventually clients would refuse to honor
   certificates that do not appear in a log, effectively forcing CAs to
   add all issued certificates to the logs.

   Logs are network services that implement the protocol operations for
   submissions and queries that are defined in this document.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     1.1.  Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     1.2.  Data Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   2.  Cryptographic Components  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     2.1.  Merkle Hash Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
       2.1.1.  Merkle Inclusion Proofs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
       2.1.2.  Merkle Consistency Proofs . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
       2.1.3.  Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
       2.1.4.  Signatures  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   3.  Submitters  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     3.1.  Certificates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     3.2.  Precertificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
   4.  Private Domain Name Labels  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
     4.1.  Wildcard Certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
     4.2.  Redacting Domain Name Labels in Precertificates . . . . .  11
     4.3.  Using a Name-Constrained Intermediate CA  . . . . . . . .  12
   5.  Log Format and Operation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
     5.1.  Accepting Submissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
     5.2.  Log Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
     5.3.  Structure of the Signed Certificate Timestamp . . . . . .  16
     5.4.  Merkle Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  18
     5.5.  Signed Tree Head (STH)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  19
       5.5.1.  Structure of the STH  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  19
   6.  Log Client Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  20
     6.1.  Add Chain to Log  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  22
     6.2.  Add PreCertChain to Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  23
     6.3.  Retrieve Latest Signed Tree Head  . . . . . . . . . . . .  23
     6.4.  Retrieve Merkle Consistency Proof between Two Signed Tree
           Heads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  23
     6.5.  Retrieve Merkle Inclusion Proof from Log by Leaf Hash . .  24
     6.6.  Retrieve Merkle Inclusion Proof, Signed Tree Head and



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           Consistency Proof by Leaf Hash  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  25
     6.7.  Retrieve Entries and STH from Log . . . . . . . . . . . .  26
     6.8.  Retrieve Accepted Root Certificates . . . . . . . . . . .  28
   7.  TLS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  28
     7.1.  TLS Extension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  29
   8.  Certification Authorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  29
     8.1.  X.509v3 Extension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  29
       8.1.1.  OCSP Response Extension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  29
       8.1.2.  Certificate Extension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  30
   9.  Clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  30
     9.1.  Metadata  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  31
     9.2.  TLS Client  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  31
     9.3.  Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  32
     9.4.  Auditing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  33
       9.4.1.  Verifying an inclusion proof  . . . . . . . . . . . .  33
       9.4.2.  Verifying consistency between two STHs  . . . . . . .  34
       9.4.3.  Verifying root hash given entries . . . . . . . . . .  35
   10. Algorithm Agility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  36
   11. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  36
     11.1.  TLS Extension Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  36
     11.2.  Hash Algorithms  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  36
     11.3.  SCT Extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  36
     11.4.  STH Extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  36
   12. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  37
     12.1.  Misissued Certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  37
     12.2.  Detection of Misissue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  37
     12.3.  Redaction of Public Domain Name Labels . . . . . . . . .  38
     12.4.  Misbehaving Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  38
     12.5.  Multiple SCTs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  38
   13. Efficiency Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  39
   14. Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  39
   15. References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  39
     15.1.  Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  39
     15.2.  Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  41
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  42

1.  Introduction

   Certificate transparency aims to mitigate the problem of misissued
   certificates by providing publicly auditable, append-only, untrusted
   logs of all issued certificates.  The logs are publicly auditable so
   that it is possible for anyone to verify the correctness of each log
   and to monitor when new certificates are added to it.  The logs do
   not themselves prevent misissue, but they ensure that interested
   parties (particularly those named in certificates) can detect such
   misissuance.  Note that this is a general mechanism, but in this
   document, we only describe its use for public TLS server certificates
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   Each log consists of certificate chains, which can be submitted by
   anyone.  It is expected that public CAs will contribute all their
   newly issued certificates to one or more logs, however certificate
   holders can also contribute their own certificate chains, as can
   third parties.  In order to avoid logs being rendered useless by
   submitting large numbers of spurious certificates, it is required
   that each chain is rooted in a CA certificate accepted by the log.
   When a chain is submitted to a log, a signed timestamp is returned,
   which can later be used to provide evidence to TLS clients that the
   chain has been submitted.  TLS clients can thus require that all
   certificates they accept as valid are accompanied by signed
   timestamps.

   Those who are concerned about misissue can monitor the logs, asking
   them regularly for all new entries, and can thus check whether
   domains they are responsible for have had certificates issued that
   they did not expect.  What they do with this information,
   particularly when they find that a misissuance has happened, is
   beyond the scope of this document, but broadly speaking, they can
   invoke existing business mechanisms for dealing with misissued
   certificates, such as working with the CA to get the certificate
   revoked, or with maintainers of trust anchor lists to get the CA
   removed.  Of course, anyone who wants can monitor the logs and, if
   they believe a certificate is incorrectly issued, take action as they
   see fit.

   Similarly, those who have seen signed timestamps from a particular
   log can later demand a proof of inclusion from that log.  If the log
   is unable to provide this (or, indeed, if the corresponding
   certificate is absent from monitors' copies of that log), that is
   evidence of the incorrect operation of the log.  The checking
   operation is asynchronous to allow TLS connections to proceed without
   delay, despite network connectivity issues and the vagaries of
   firewalls.

   The append-only property of each log is technically achieved using
   Merkle Trees, which can be used to show that any particular instance
   of the log is a superset of any particular previous instance.
   Likewise, Merkle Trees avoid the need to blindly trust logs: if a log
   attempts to show different things to different people, this can be
   efficiently detected by comparing tree roots and consistency proofs.
   Similarly, other misbehaviors of any log (e.g., issuing signed
   timestamps for certificates they then don't log) can be efficiently
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1.1.  Requirements Language

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119].

1.2.  Data Structures

   Data structures are defined according to the conventions laid out in
   Section 4 of [RFC5246].

2.  Cryptographic Components

2.1.  Merkle Hash Trees

   Logs use a binary Merkle Hash Tree for efficient auditing.  The
   hashing algorithm used by each log is expected to be specified as
   part of the metadata relating to that log.  We have established a
   registry of acceptable algorithms, see Section 11.2.  The hashing
   algorithm in use is referred to as HASH throughout this document and
   the size of its output in bytes as HASH_SIZE.  The input to the
   Merkle Tree Hash is a list of data entries; these entries will be
   hashed to form the leaves of the Merkle Hash Tree.  The output is a
   single HASH_SIZE Merkle Tree Hash.  Given an ordered list of n
   inputs, D[n] = {d(0), d(1), ..., d(n-1)}, the Merkle Tree Hash (MTH)
   is thus defined as follows:

   The hash of an empty list is the hash of an empty string:

   MTH({}) = HASH().

   The hash of a list with one entry (also known as a leaf hash) is:

   MTH({d(0)}) = HASH(0x00 || d(0)).

   For n > 1, let k be the largest power of two smaller than n (i.e., k
   < n <= 2k).  The Merkle Tree Hash of an n-element list D[n] is then
   defined recursively as

   MTH(D[n]) = HASH(0x01 || MTH(D[0:k]) || MTH(D[k:n])),

   where || is concatenation and D[k1:k2] denotes the list {d(k1),
   d(k1+1),..., d(k2-1)} of length (k2 - k1).  (Note that the hash
   calculations for leaves and nodes differ.  This domain separation is
   required to give second preimage resistance.)

   Note that we do not require the length of the input list to be a
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   however, its shape is uniquely determined by the number of leaves.
   (Note: This Merkle Tree is essentially the same as the history tree
   [CrosbyWallach] proposal, except our definition handles non-full
   trees differently.)

2.1.1.  Merkle Inclusion Proofs

   A Merkle inclusion proof for a leaf in a Merkle Hash Tree is the
   shortest list of additional nodes in the Merkle Tree required to
   compute the Merkle Tree Hash for that tree.  Each node in the tree is
   either a leaf node or is computed from the two nodes immediately
   below it (i.e., towards the leaves).  At each step up the tree
   (towards the root), a node from the inclusion proof is combined with
   the node computed so far.  In other words, the inclusion proof
   consists of the list of missing nodes required to compute the nodes
   leading from a leaf to the root of the tree.  If the root computed
   from the inclusion proof matches the true root, then the inclusion
   proof proves that the leaf exists in the tree.

   Given an ordered list of n inputs to the tree, D[n] = {d(0), ...,
   d(n-1)}, the Merkle inclusion proof PATH(m, D[n]) for the (m+1)th
   input d(m), 0 <= m < n, is defined as follows:

   The proof for the single leaf in a tree with a one-element input list
   D[1] = {d(0)} is empty:

   PATH(0, {d(0)}) = {}

   For n > 1, let k be the largest power of two smaller than n.  The
   proof for the (m+1)th element d(m) in a list of n > m elements is
   then defined recursively as

   PATH(m, D[n]) = PATH(m, D[0:k]) : MTH(D[k:n]) for m < k; and

   PATH(m, D[n]) = PATH(m - k, D[k:n]) : MTH(D[0:k]) for m >= k,

   where : is concatenation of lists and D[k1:k2] denotes the length (k2
   - k1) list {d(k1), d(k1+1),..., d(k2-1)} as before.

2.1.2.  Merkle Consistency Proofs

   Merkle consistency proofs prove the append-only property of the tree.
   A Merkle consistency proof for a Merkle Tree Hash MTH(D[n]) and a
   previously advertised hash MTH(D[0:m]) of the first m leaves, m <= n,
   is the list of nodes in the Merkle Tree required to verify that the
   first m inputs D[0:m] are equal in both trees.  Thus, a consistency
   proof must contain a set of intermediate nodes (i.e., commitments to
   inputs) sufficient to verify MTH(D[n]), such that (a subset of) the



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   same nodes can be used to verify MTH(D[0:m]).  We define an algorithm
   that outputs the (unique) minimal consistency proof.

   Given an ordered list of n inputs to the tree, D[n] = {d(0), ...,
   d(n-1)}, the Merkle consistency proof PROOF(m, D[n]) for a previous
   Merkle Tree Hash MTH(D[0:m]), 0 < m < n, is defined as:

   PROOF(m, D[n]) = SUBPROOF(m, D[n], true)

   The subproof for m = n is empty if m is the value for which PROOF was
   originally requested (meaning that the subtree Merkle Tree Hash
   MTH(D[0:m]) is known):

   SUBPROOF(m, D[m], true) = {}

   The subproof for m = n is the Merkle Tree Hash committing inputs
   D[0:m]; otherwise:

   SUBPROOF(m, D[m], false) = {MTH(D[m])}

   For m < n, let k be the largest power of two smaller than n.  The
   subproof is then defined recursively.

   If m <= k, the right subtree entries D[k:n] only exist in the current
   tree.  We prove that the left subtree entries D[0:k] are consistent
   and add a commitment to D[k:n]:

   SUBPROOF(m, D[n], b) = SUBPROOF(m, D[0:k], b) : MTH(D[k:n])

   If m > k, the left subtree entries D[0:k] are identical in both
   trees.  We prove that the right subtree entries D[k:n] are consistent
   and add a commitment to D[0:k].

   SUBPROOF(m, D[n], b) = SUBPROOF(m - k, D[k:n], false) : MTH(D[0:k])

   Here, : is a concatenation of lists, and D[k1:k2] denotes the length
   (k2 - k1) list {d(k1), d(k1+1),..., d(k2-1)} as before.

   The number of nodes in the resulting proof is bounded above by
   ceil(log2(n)) + 1.

2.1.3.  Example









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   The binary Merkle Tree with 7 leaves:

               hash
              /    \
             /      \
            /        \
           /          \
          /            \
         k              l
        / \            / \
       /   \          /   \
      /     \        /     \
     g       h      i      j
    / \     / \    / \     |
    a b     c d    e f     d6
    | |     | |    | |
   d0 d1   d2 d3  d4 d5

   The inclusion proof for d0 is [b, h, l].

   The inclusion proof for d3 is [c, g, l].

   The inclusion proof for d4 is [f, j, k].

   The inclusion proof for d6 is [i, k].


























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   The same tree, built incrementally in four steps:

       hash0          hash1=k
       / \              /  \
      /   \            /    \
     /     \          /      \
     g      c         g       h
    / \     |        / \     / \
    a b     d2       a b     c d
    | |              | |     | |
   d0 d1            d0 d1   d2 d3

             hash2                    hash
             /  \                    /    \
            /    \                  /      \
           /      \                /        \
          /        \              /          \
         /          \            /            \
        k            i          k              l
       / \          / \        / \            / \
      /   \         e f       /   \          /   \
     /     \        | |      /     \        /     \
    g       h      d4 d5    g       h      i      j
   / \     / \             / \     / \    / \     |
   a b     c d             a b     c d    e f     d6
   | |     | |             | |     | |    | |
   d0 d1   d2 d3           d0 d1   d2 d3  d4 d5

   The consistency proof between hash0 and hash is PROOF(3, D[7]) = [c,
   d, g, l]. c, g are used to verify hash0, and d, l are additionally
   used to show hash is consistent with hash0.

   The consistency proof between hash1 and hash is PROOF(4, D[7]) = [l].
   hash can be verified using hash1=k and l.

   The consistency proof between hash2 and hash is PROOF(6, D[7]) = [i,
   j, k]. k, i are used to verify hash2, and j is additionally used to
   show hash is consistent with hash2.

2.1.4.  Signatures

   Various data structures are signed.  A log MUST use either
   deterministic ECDSA [RFC6979] using the NIST P-256 curve
   (Section D.1.2.3 of the Digital Signature Standard [DSS]) and HMAC-
   SHA256 or RSA signatures (RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 with SHA-256, Section 8.2
   of [RFC3447]) using a key of at least 2048 bits.





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3.  Submitters

   Submitters submit certificates or precertificates to logs for public
   auditing, as described below.  In order to enable attribution of each
   logged certificate or precertificate to its issuer, each submission
   MUST be accompanied by all additional certificates required to verify
   the chain up to an accepted root certificate.  The root certificate
   itself MAY be omitted from the submission.

   If a log accepts a submission, it will return a Signed Certificate
   Timestamp (SCT).  The submitter SHOULD validate the returned SCT as
   described in Section 9.2 if they understand its format and they
   intend to use it directly in a TLS handshake or to construct a
   certificate.

3.1.  Certificates

   Anyone can submit a certificate (Section 6.1) to a log.  Since
   certificates may not be accepted by TLS clients unless logged, it is
   expected that certificate owners or their CAs will usually submit
   them.

3.2.  Precertificates

   Alternatively, (root as well as intermediate) CAs may preannounce a
   certificate prior to issuance by submitting a precertificate
   (Section 6.2) that the log can use to create an entry that will be
   valid against the issued certificate.  The CA MAY incorporate the
   returned SCT in the issued certificate.

   A precertificate is a CMS [RFC5652] "signed-data" object that
   conforms to the following requirements:

   o  It MUST be DER encoded.

   o  "SignedData.encapContentInfo.eContentType" MUST be the OID <TBD>.

   o  "SignedData.encapContentInfo.eContent" MUST contain a
      TBSCertificate [RFC5280], which MAY redact certain domain name
      labels that will be present in the issued certificate (see
      Section 4.2) and MUST NOT contain any SCTs, but which will be
      otherwise identical to the TBSCertificate in the issued
      certificate.

   o  "SignedData.signerInfos" MUST contain a signature from the same
      (root or intermediate) CA that will ultimately issue the
      certificate.  This signature indicates the CA's intent to issue
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      misissuance of the precertificate is considered equivalent to
      misissuance of the certificate).  (Note that, because of the
      structure of CMS, the signature on the CMS object will not be a
      valid X.509v3 signature and so cannot be used to construct a
      certificate from the precertificate).

   o  "SignedData.certificates" SHOULD be omitted.

4.  Private Domain Name Labels

   Some regard some DNS domain name labels within their registered
   domain space as private and security sensitive.  Even though these
   domains are often only accessible within the domain owner's private
   network, it's common for them to be secured using publicly trusted
   TLS server certificates.  We define a mechanism to allow these
   private labels to not appear in public logs.

4.1.  Wildcard Certificates

   A certificate containing a DNS-ID [RFC6125] of "*.example.com" could
   be used to secure the domain "topsecret.example.com", without
   revealing the string "topsecret" publicly.

   Since TLS clients only match the wildcard character to the complete
   leftmost label of the DNS domain name (see Section 6.4.3 of
   [RFC6125]), this approach would not work for a DNS-ID such as
   "top.secret.example.com".  Also, wildcard certificates are prohibited
   in some cases, such as Extended Validation Certificates
   [EVSSLGuidelines].

4.2.  Redacting Domain Name Labels in Precertificates

   When creating a precertificate, the CA MAY substitute one or more
   labels in each DNS-ID with a corresponding number of "?" labels.
   Every label to the left of a "?" label MUST also be redacted.  For
   example, if a certificate contains a DNS-ID of
   "top.secret.example.com", then the corresponding precertificate could
   contain "?.?.example.com" instead, but not "top.?.example.com"
   instead.

   Wildcard "*" labels MUST NOT be redacted.  However, if the complete
   leftmost label of a DNS-ID is "*", it is considered redacted for the
   purposes of determining if the label to the right may be redacted.
   For example, if a certificate contains a DNS-ID of
   "*.top.secret.example.com", then the corresponding precertificate
   could contain "*.?.?.example.com" instead, but not
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   When a precertificate contains one or more redacted labels, a non-
   critical extension (OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.11129.2.4.6, whose extnValue
   OCTET STRING contains an ASN.1 SEQUENCE OF INTEGERs) MUST be added to
   the corresponding certificate: the first INTEGER indicates the total
   number of redacted labels and wildcard "*" labels in the
   precertificate's first DNS-ID; the second INTEGER does the same for
   the precertificate's second DNS-ID; etc.  There MUST NOT be more
   INTEGERs than there are DNS-IDs.  If there are fewer INTEGERs than
   there are DNS-IDs, the shortfall is made up by implicitly repeating
   the last INTEGER.  Each INTEGER MUST have a value of zero or more.
   The purpose of this extension is to enable TLS clients to accurately
   reconstruct the TBSCertificate component of the precertificate from
   the certificate without having to perform any guesswork.

   When a precertificate contains that extension and contains a CN-ID
   [RFC6125], the CN-ID MUST match the first DNS-ID and have the same
   labels redacted.  TLS clients will use the first entry in the
   SEQUENCE OF INTEGERs to reconstruct both the first DNS-ID and the CN-
   ID.

4.3.  Using a Name-Constrained Intermediate CA

   An intermediate CA certificate or intermediate CA precertificate that
   contains the critical or non-critical Name Constraints [RFC5280]
   extension MAY be logged in place of end-entity certificates issued by
   that intermediate CA, as long as all of the following conditions are
   met:

   o  there MUST be a non-critical extension (OID
      1.3.6.1.4.1.11129.2.4.7, whose extnValue OCTET STRING contains
      ASN.1 NULL data (0x05 0x00)).  This extension is an explicit
      indication that it is acceptable to not log certificates issued by
      this intermediate CA.

   o  permittedSubtrees MUST specify one or more dNSNames.

   o  excludedSubtrees MUST specify the entire IPv4 and IPv6 address
      ranges.













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   Below is an example Name Constraints extension that meets these
   conditions:

       SEQUENCE {
         OBJECT IDENTIFIER '2 5 29 30'
         OCTET STRING, encapsulates {
           SEQUENCE {
             [0] {
               SEQUENCE {
                 [2] 'example.com'
                 }
               }
             [1] {
               SEQUENCE {
                 [7] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
                 }
               SEQUENCE {
                 [7]
                   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
                   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
                 }
               }
             }
           }
         }

5.  Log Format and Operation

   A log is a single, append-only Merkle Tree of submitted certificate
   and precertificate entries.

   When it receives a valid submission, the log MUST return an SCT that
   corresponds to the submitted certificate or precertificate.  If the
   log has previously seen this valid submission, it MAY return the same
   SCT as it returned before (note that if a certificate was previously
   logged as a precertificate, then the precertificate's SCT would not
   be appropriate, instead a fresh SCT of type x509_entry should be
   generated).

   An SCT is the log's promise to incorporate the submitted entry in its
   Merkle Tree no later than a fixed amount of time, known as the
   Maximum Merge Delay (MMD), after the issuance of the SCT.
   Periodically, the log MUST append all its new entries to its Merkle
   Tree and sign the root of the tree.  This provides auditable evidence
   that the log kept all its promises.

   Log operators MUST NOT impose any conditions on retrieving or sharing
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5.1.  Accepting Submissions

   Logs MUST verify that each submitted certificate or precertificate
   has a valid signature chain to an accepted root certificate, using
   the chain of intermediate CA certificates provided by the submitter.
   Logs MUST accept certificates and precertificates that are fully
   valid according to RFC 5280 [RFC5280] verification rules and are
   submitted with such a chain.  Logs MAY accept certificates and
   precertificates that have expired, are not yet valid, have been
   revoked, or are otherwise not fully valid according to RFC 5280
   verification rules in order to accommodate quirks of CA certificate-
   issuing software.  However, logs MUST reject submissions without a
   valid signature chain to an accepted root certificate.  Logs MUST
   also reject precertificates that do not conform to the requirements
   in Section 3.2.

   Logs SHOULD limit the length of chain they will accept.  The maximum
   chain length is specified in the log's metadata.

   The log SHALL allow retrieval of its list of accepted root
   certificates (see Section 6.8).  This list might usefully be the
   union of root certificates trusted by major browser vendors.

5.2.  Log Entries

   If a submission is accepted and an SCT issued, the accepting log MUST
   store the entire chain used for verification.  This chain MUST
   include the certificate or precertificate itself, the zero or more
   intermediate CA certificates provided by the submitter, and the root
   certificate used to verify the chain (even if it was omitted from the
   submission).  The log MUST present this chain for auditing upon
   request.  This chain is required to prevent a CA from avoiding blame
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   Each certificate entry in a log MUST include a "X509ChainEntry"
   structure, and each precertificate entry MUST include a
   "PrecertChainEntryV2" structure:

       enum {
           x509_entry(0), precert_entry_V2(2), (65535)
       } LogEntryType;

       opaque ASN.1Cert<1..2^24-1>;

       struct {
           ASN.1Cert leaf_certificate;
           ASN.1Cert certificate_chain<0..2^24-1>;
       } X509ChainEntry;

       opaque CMSPrecert<1..2^24-1>;

       struct {
           CMSPrecert pre_certificate;
           ASN.1Cert precertificate_chain<0..2^24-1>;
       } PrecertChainEntryV2;

   "entry_type" is the type of this entry.  Future revisions of this
   protocol may add new LogEntryType values.  Section 6 explains how
   clients should handle unknown entry types.

   "leaf_certificate" is a submitted certificate that has been accepted
   by the log.

   "certificate_chain" is a vector of 0 or more additional certificates
   required to verify "leaf_certificate".  The first certificate MUST
   certify "leaf_certificate".  Each following certificate MUST directly
   certify the one preceding it.  The final certificate MUST be a root
   certificate accepted by the log.  If "leaf_certificate" is a root
   certificate, then this vector is empty.

   "pre_certificate" is a submitted precertificate that has been
   accepted by the log.

   "precertificate_chain" is a vector of 1 or more additional
   certificates required to verify "pre_certificate".  The first
   certificate MUST certify "pre_certificate".  Each following
   certificate MUST directly certify the one preceding it.  The final
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5.3.  Structure of the Signed Certificate Timestamp

       enum {
           certificate_timestamp(0), tree_hash(1), (255)
       } SignatureType;

       enum {
           v2(1), (255)
       } Version;

       struct {
           opaque key_id[HASH_SIZE];
       } LogID;

       opaque TBSCertificate<1..2^24-1>;

       struct {
           opaque issuer_key_hash[HASH_SIZE];
           TBSCertificate tbs_certificate;
       } CertInfo;

       enum {
           reserved(65535)
       } SctExtensionType;

       struct {
           SctExtensionType sct_extension_type;
           opaque sct_extension_data<0..2^16-1>;
       } SctExtension;

       SctExtension SctExtensions<0..2^16-1>;

   "key_id" is the HASH of the log's public key, calculated over the DER
   encoding of the key represented as SubjectPublicKeyInfo.

   "issuer_key_hash" is the HASH of the certificate issuer's public key,
   calculated over the DER encoding of the key represented as
   SubjectPublicKeyInfo.  This is needed to bind the issuer to the final
   certificate, making it impossible for the SCT to be valid for any
   other certificate.

   "tbs_certificate" is the DER-encoded TBSCertificate component of the
   precertificate.  Note that it is also possible to reconstruct this
   TBSCertificate from the issued certificate by extracting the
   TBSCertificate from it, redacting the domain name labels indicated by
   the redacted labels extension, and deleting the SCT list extension
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   "sct_extension_type" identifies a single extension from the IANA
   registry in Section 11.3.

   The interpretation of the "sct_extension_data" field is determined
   solely by the value of the "sct_extension_type" field.  Each document
   that registers a new "sct_extension_type" must describe how to
   interpret the corresponding "sct_extension_data".

   The "SctExtensions" type is a vector of 0 or more extensions.  This
   vector MUST NOT include more than one extension with the same
   "sct_extension_type".  The extensions in the vector MUST be ordered
   by the value of the "sct_extension_type" field, smallest value first.

       struct {
           Version sct_version;
           LogID id;
           uint64 timestamp;
           SctExtensions extensions;
           digitally-signed struct {
               Version sct_version;
               SignatureType signature_type = certificate_timestamp;
               uint64 timestamp;
               LogEntryType entry_type;
               select(entry_type) {
                   case x509_entry: CertInfo;
                   case precert_entry_V2: CertInfo;
               } signed_entry;
               SctExtensions extensions;
           };
       } SignedCertificateTimestamp;

   The encoding of the digitally-signed element is defined in [RFC5246].

   "sct_version" is the version of the protocol to which the SCT
   conforms.  This version is v2.  Note that SignedCertificateTimestamp
   v1 [RFC6962] had a different definition of "signed_entry".

   "timestamp" is the current NTP Time [RFC5905], measured since the
   epoch (January 1, 1970, 00:00), ignoring leap seconds, in
   milliseconds.

   "entry_type" may be implicit from the context in which the SCT is
   presented.

   "signed_entry" includes the TBSCertificate from either the
   "leaf_certificate" (in the case of an X509ChainEntry) or the
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   "extensions" are future extensions to SignedCertificateTimestamp v2.
   Currently, no extensions are specified.  If an implementation sees an
   extension that it does not understand, it SHOULD ignore that
   extension.  Furthermore, an implementation MAY choose to ignore any
   extension(s) that it does understand.

5.4.  Merkle Tree

   The hashing algorithm for the Merkle Tree Hash is specified in the
   log's metadata.

   Structure of the Merkle Tree input:

       enum {
           v1(0), v2(1), (255)
       } LeafVersion;

       struct {
           uint64 timestamp;
           LogEntryType entry_type;
           select(entry_type) {
               case x509_entry: CertInfo;
               case precert_entry_V2: CertInfo;
           } signed_entry;
           SctExtensions extensions;
       } TimestampedEntry;

       struct {
           LeafVersion version;
           TimestampedEntry timestamped_entry;
       } MerkleTreeLeaf;

   Here, "version" is the version of the MerkleTreeLeaf structure.  This
   version is v2.  Note that MerkleTreeLeaf v1 [RFC6962] had another
   layer of indirection which is removed in v2.

   "timestamp" is the timestamp of the corresponding SCT issued for this
   certificate.

   "entry_type" is the type of entry stored in "signed_entry".  New
   "LogEntryType" values may be added to "signed_entry" without
   increasing the "MerkleTreeLeaf" version.  Section 6 explains how
   clients should handle unknown entry types.

   "signed_entry" is the "signed_entry" of the corresponding SCT.

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   The leaves of the Merkle Tree are the leaf hashes of the
   corresponding "MerkleTreeLeaf" structures.  Note that leaf hashes
   (Section 2.1) are calculated as HASH(0x00 || MerkleTreeLeaf).

5.5.  Signed Tree Head (STH)

   Periodically the log SHOULD sign the corresponding tree hash and tree
   information (see the corresponding Signed Tree Head client message in
   Section 6.3).

   Each log MUST produce on demand a Signed Tree Head that is no older
   than the Maximum Merge Delay.  However, Signed Tree Heads could be
   used to mark individual clients (by producing a new one for each
   query), so logs MUST NOT produce them more frequently than is
   declared in their metadata.  In general, there is no need to produce
   a new Signed Tree Head unless there are new entries in the log,
   however, in the unlikely event that it receives no new submissions
   during an MMD period, the log SHALL sign the same Merkle Tree Hash
   with a fresh timestamp.

5.5.1.  Structure of the STH

       enum {
           v2(1), (255)
       } TreeHeadVersion;

       enum {
           reserved(65535)
       } SthExtensionType;

       struct {
           SthExtensionType sth_extension_type;
           opaque sth_extension_data<0..2^16-1>;
       } SthExtension;

       SthExtension SthExtensions<0..2^16-1>;

   "sth_extension_type" identifies a single extension from the IANA
   registry in Section 11.4.

   The interpretation of the "sth_extension_data" field is determined
   solely by the value of the "sth_extension_type" field.  Each document
   that registers a new "sth_extension_type" must describe how to
   interpret the corresponding "sth_extension_data".

   The "SthExtensions" type is a vector of 0 or more extensions.  This
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   "sth_extension_type".  The extensions in the vector MUST be ordered
   by the value of the "sth_extension_type" field, smallest value first.

       struct {
           TreeHeadVersion version;
           LogID id;
           uint64 timestamp;
           uint64 tree_size;
           opaque root_hash[HASH_SIZE];
           SthExtensions extensions;
           digitally-signed struct {
               TreeHeadVersion version;
               SignatureType signature_type = tree_hash;
               LogID id;
               uint64 timestamp;
               uint64 tree_size;
               opaque root_hash[HASH_SIZE];
               SthExtensions extensions;
           };
       } SignedTreeHead;

   "version" is the version of the SignedTreeHead structure.  This
   version is v2.  Note that TreeHeadSignature v1 [RFC6962] only
   included the inner "digitally-signed struct" and did not include the
   "id" or "extensions" fields.

   "timestamp" is the current NTP Time [RFC5905], measured since the
   epoch (January 1, 1970, 00:00), ignoring leap seconds, in
   milliseconds.  The timestamp MUST be at least as recent as the most
   recent SCT timestamp in the tree.  Each subsequent timestamp MUST be
   more recent than the timestamp of the previous update.

   "tree_size" equals the number of entries in the new tree.

   "root_hash" is the root of the Merkle Hash Tree.

   "extensions" are future extensions to SignedTreeHead v2.  Currently,
   no extensions are specified.  If an implementation sees an extension
   that it does not understand, it SHOULD ignore that extension.
   Furthermore, an implementation MAY choose to ignore any extension(s)
   that it does understand.

6.  Log Client Messages

   Messages are sent as HTTPS GET or POST requests.  Parameters for
   POSTs and all responses are encoded as JavaScript Object Notation
   (JSON) objects [RFC4627].  Parameters for GETs are encoded as order-
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   form-urlencoded" format described in the "HTML 4.01 Specification"
   [HTML401].  Binary data is base64 encoded [RFC4648] as specified in
   the individual messages.

   Note that JSON objects and URL parameters may contain fields not
   specified here.  These extra fields should be ignored.

   The <log server> prefix MAY include a path as well as a server name
   and a port.

   In general, where needed, the "version" is v1 and the "id" is the log
   id for the log server queried.

   In practice, log servers may include multiple front-end machines.
   Since it is impractical to keep these machines in perfect sync,
   errors may occur that are caused by skew between the machines.  Where
   such errors are possible, the front-end will return additional
   information (as specified below) making it possible for clients to
   make progress, if progress is possible.  Front-ends MUST only serve
   data that is free of gaps (that is, for example, no front-end will
   respond with an STH unless it is also able to prove consistency from
   all log entries logged within that STH).

   For example, when a consistency proof between two STHs is requested,
   the front-end reached may not yet be aware of one or both STHs.  In
   the case where it is unaware of both, it will return the latest STH
   it is aware of.  Where it is aware of the first but not the second,
   it will return the latest STH it is aware of and a consistency proof
   from the first STH to the returned STH.  The case where it knows the
   second but not the first should not arise (see the "no gaps"
   requirement above).

   If the log is unable to process a client's request, it MUST return an
   HTTP response code of 4xx/5xx (see [RFC2616]), and, in place of the
   responses outlined in the subsections below, the body SHOULD be a
   JSON structure containing at least the following field:

   error_message:  A human-readable string describing the error which
      prevented the log from processing the request.

      In the case of a malformed request, the string SHOULD provide
      sufficient detail for the error to be rectified.

   error_code:  An error code readable by the client.  Some codes are
      generic and are detailed here.  Others are detailed in the
      individual requests.  Error codes are fixed text strings.

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   e.g.  In response to a request of "/ct/v2/get-
   entries?start=100&end=99", the log would return a "400 Bad Request"
   response code with a body similar to the following:

       {
           "error_message": "'start' cannot be greater than 'end'",
           "error_code": "not compliant",
       }

   Clients SHOULD treat "500 Internal Server Error" and "503 Service
   Unavailable" responses as transient failures and MAY retry the same
   request without modification at a later date.  Note that as per
   [RFC2616], in the case of a 503 response the log MAY include a
   "Retry-After:" header in order to request a minimum time for the
   client to wait before retrying the request.

6.1.  Add Chain to Log

   POST https://<log server>/ct/v2/add-chain

   Inputs:

      chain:  An array of base64 encoded certificates.  The first
         element is the end-entity certificate; the second chains to the
         first and so on to the last, which is either the root
         certificate or a certificate that chains to a known root
         certificate.

   Outputs:

      sct:  The base64 encoded "SignedCertificateTimestamp" for the
         submitted certificate.

   Error codes:

      unknown root  The root of the chain is not one accepted by the
         log.

      bad chain  The alleged chain is not actually a chain of
         certificates.

      bad certificate  One or more certificates in the chain are not
         valid (e.g. not properly encoded).

   If the version of "sct" is not v2, then a v2 client may be unable to
   verify the signature.  It MUST NOT construe this as an error.  This
   is to avoid forcing an upgrade of compliant v2 clients that do not
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   If a log detects bad encoding in a chain that otherwise verifies
   correctly then the log MAY still log the certificate but SHOULD NOT
   return an SCT.  It should instead return the "bad certificate" error.
   Logging the certificate is useful, because monitors (Section 9.3) can
   then detect these encoding errors, which may be accepted by some TLS
   clients.

   Note that not all certificate handling software is capable of
   detecting all encoding errors (e.g. some software will accept BER
   instead of DER encodings in certificates, or incorrect character
   encodings, even though these are technically incorrect) .

6.2.  Add PreCertChain to Log

   POST https://<log server>/ct/v2/add-pre-chain

   Inputs:

      precertificate:  The base64 encoded precertificate.

      chain:  An array of base64 encoded CA certificates.  The first
         element is the signer of the precertificate; the second chains
         to the first and so on to the last, which is either the root
         certificate or a certificate that chains to an accepted root
         certificate.

   Outputs and errors are the same as in Section 6.1.

6.3.  Retrieve Latest Signed Tree Head

   GET https://<log server>/ct/v2/get-sth

   No inputs.

   Outputs:

      sth:  A base64 encoded SignedTreeHead.

6.4.  Retrieve Merkle Consistency Proof between Two Signed Tree Heads

   GET https://<log server>/ct/v2/get-sth-consistency

   Inputs:

      first:  The tree_size of the older tree, in decimal.

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      Both tree sizes must be from existing v2 STHs (Signed Tree Heads).
      However, because of skew, the receiving front-end may not know one
      or both of the existing STHs.  If both are known, then only the
      "consistency" output is returned.  If the first is known but the
      second is not (or has been omitted), then the latest known STH is
      returned, along with a consistency proof between the first STH and
      the latest.  If neither are known, then the latest known STH is
      returned without a consistency proof.

   Outputs:

      consistency:  An array of base64 encoded Merkle Tree nodes.

      sth:  A base64 encoded SignedTreeHead.

      Note that no signature is required for the "consistency" output as
      it is used to verify "sth", which is signed.

   Error codes:

      first unknown  "first" is before the latest known STH but is not
         from an existing STH.

      second unknown  "second" is before the latest known STH but is not
         from an existing STH.

   See Section 9.4.2 for an outline of how to use the "consistency"
   array.

6.5.  Retrieve Merkle Inclusion Proof from Log by Leaf Hash

   GET https://<log server>/ct/v2/get-proof-by-hash

   Inputs:

      hash:  A base64 encoded v1 leaf hash.

      tree_size:  The tree_size of the tree on which to base the proof,
         in decimal.

      The "hash" must be calculated as defined in Section 5.4.  The
      "tree_size" must designate an existing v2 STH.  Because of skew,
      the front-end may not know the requested STH.  In that case, it
      will return the latest STH it knows, along with an inclusion proof
      to that STH.  If the front-end knows the requested STH then only
      "leaf_index" and "audit_path" are returned.

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      leaf_index:  The 0-based index of the entry corresponding to the
         "hash" parameter.

      audit_path:  An array of base64 encoded Merkle Tree nodes proving
         the inclusion of the chosen certificate.

      sth:  A base64 encoded SignedTreeHead.

      Note that no signature is required for the "leaf_index" or
      "audit_path" outputs as they are used to verify inclusion in
      "sth", which is signed.

   Error codes:

      hash unknown  "hash" is not the hash of a known leaf (may be
         caused by skew or by a known certificate not yet merged).

      tree_size unknown  "hash" is before the latest known STH but is
         not from an existing STH.

   See Section 9.4.1 for an outline of how to use the "audit_path"
   array.

6.6.  Retrieve Merkle Inclusion Proof, Signed Tree Head and Consistency
      Proof by Leaf Hash

   GET https://<log server>/ct/v2/get-all-by-hash

   Inputs:

      hash:  A base64 encoded v1 leaf hash.

      tree_size:  The tree_size of the tree on which to base the proofs,
         in decimal.

      The "hash" must be calculated as defined in Section 5.4.  The
      "tree_size" must designate an existing v2 STH.

      Because of skew, the front-end may not know the requested STH or
      the requested hash, which leads to a number of cases.



      latest STH < requested STH  Return latest STH.

      latest STH > requested STH  Return latest STH and a consistency
         proof between it and the requested STH (see Section 6.4).




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      index of requested hash < latest STH  Return "leaf_index" and
         "audit_path".

      Note that more than one case can be true, in which case the
      returned data is their concatenation.  It is also possible for
      none to be true, in which case the front-end MUST return an empty
      response.

   Outputs:

      leaf_index:  The 0-based index of the entry corresponding to the
         "hash" parameter.

      audit_path:  An array of base64 encoded Merkle Tree nodes proving
         the inclusion of the chosen certificate.

      sth:  A base64 encoded SignedTreeHead.

      consistency:  An array of base64 encoded Merkle Tree nodes proving
         the consistency of the requested STH and the returned STH.

      Note that no signature is required for the "leaf_index",
      "audit_path" or "consistency" outputs as they are used to verify
      inclusion in and consistency of "sth", which is signed.

   Errors are the same as in Section 6.5.

   See Section 9.4.1 for an outline of how to use the "audit_path" array
   and see Section 9.4.2 for an outline of how to use the "consistency"
   array.

6.7.  Retrieve Entries and STH from Log

   GET https://<log server>/ct/v2/get-entries

   Inputs:

      start:  0-based index of first entry to retrieve, in decimal.

      end:  0-based index of last entry to retrieve, in decimal.

   Outputs:

      entries:  An array of objects, each consisting of

         leaf_input:  The base64 encoded MerkleTreeLeaf structure.





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         extra_data:  The base64 encoded unsigned data pertaining to the
            log entry.  In the case of an X509ChainEntry, this is the
            whole "X509ChainEntry".  In the case of a
            PrecertChainEntryV2, this is the whole
            "PrecertChainEntryV2".

         sct:  A base64 encoded "SignedCertificateTimestamp" for this
            entry.  Note that more than one SCT may have been returned
            for the same entry - only one of those is returned in this
            field.  It may not be possible to retrieve others.

      sth:  A base64 encoded SignedTreeHead.

   Note that this message is not signed -- the "entries" data can be
   verified by constructing the Merkle Tree Hash corresponding to a
   retrieved STH.  All leaves MUST be v1 or v2.  However, a compliant v1
   client MUST NOT construe an unrecognized LogEntryType value as an
   error.  This means it may be unable to parse some entries, but note
   that each client can inspect the entries it does recognize as well as
   verify the integrity of the data by treating unrecognized leaves as
   opaque input to the tree.

   The "start" and "end" parameters SHOULD be within the range 0 <= x <
   "tree_size" as returned by "get-sth" in Section 6.3.

   The "start" parameter MUST be less than or equal to the "end"
   parameter.

   Log servers MUST honor requests where 0 <= "start" < "tree_size" and
   "end" >= "tree_size" by returning a partial response covering only
   the valid entries in the specified range. "end" >= "tree_size" could
   be caused by skew.  Note that the following restriction may also
   apply:

   Logs MAY restrict the number of entries that can be retrieved per
   "get-entries" request.  If a client requests more than the permitted
   number of entries, the log SHALL return the maximum number of entries
   permissible.  These entries SHALL be sequential beginning with the
   entry specified by "start".

   Because of skew, it is possible the log server will not have any
   entries between "start" and "end".  In this case it MUST return an
   empty "entries" array.

   In any case, the log server MUST return the latest STH it knows
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   See Section 9.4.3 for an outline of how to use a complete list of
   "leaf_input" entries to verify the "root_hash".

6.8.  Retrieve Accepted Root Certificates

   GET https://<log server>/ct/v1/get-roots

   No inputs.

   Outputs:

      certificates:  An array of base64 encoded root certificates that
         are acceptable to the log.

      max_chain:  If the server has chosen to limit the length of chains
         it accepts, this is the maximum number of certificates in the
         chain, in decimal.  If there is no limit, this is omitted.

7.  TLS Servers

   TLS servers MUST use at least one of the three mechanisms listed
   below to present one or more SCTs from one or more logs to each TLS
   client during TLS handshakes, where each SCT corresponds to the
   server certificate or to a name-constrained intermediate the server
   certificate chains to.  Three mechanisms are provided because they
   have different tradeoffs.

   o  A TLS extension (Section 7.4.1.4 of [RFC5246]) with type
      "signed_certificate_timestamp" (see Section 7.1).  This mechanism
      allows TLS servers to participate in CT without the cooperation of
      CAs, unlike the other two mechanisms.  It also allows SCTs to be
      updated on the fly.

   o  An Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) [RFC6960] response
      extension (see Section 8.1.1), where the OCSP response is provided
      in the "certificate_status" TLS extension (Section 8 of
      [RFC6066]), also known as OCSP stapling.  This mechanism is
      already widely (but not universally) implemented.  It also allows
      SCTs to be updated on the fly.

   o  An X509v3 certificate extension (see Section 8.1.2).  This
      mechanism allows the use of unmodified TLS servers, but the SCTs
      cannot be updated on the fly.  Since the logs that signed the SCTs
      won't necessarily be accepted by TLS clients for the full lifetime
      of the certificate, there is a risk that TLS clients will
      subsequently consider the certificate to be non-compliant and in
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   TLS servers SHOULD send SCTs from multiple logs in case one or more
   logs are not acceptable to the TLS client (for example, if a log has
   been struck off for misbehavior, has had a key compromise or is not
   known to the TLS client).

   Multiple SCTs are combined into an SCT list as follows:

       opaque SerializedSCT<1..2^16-1>;

       struct {
           SerializedSCT sct_list<1..2^16-1>;
       } SignedCertificateTimestampList;

   Here, "SerializedSCT" is an opaque byte string that contains the
   serialized SCT structure.  This encoding ensures that TLS clients can
   decode each SCT individually (i.e., if there is a version upgrade,
   out-of-date clients can still parse old SCTs while skipping over new
   SCTs whose versions they don't understand).

7.1.  TLS Extension

   If a TLS client includes the "signed_certificate_timestamp" extension
   type in the ClientHello, the TLS server MAY include the
   "signed_certificate_timestamp" extension in the ServerHello with
   "extension_data" set to a "SignedCertificateTimestampList".  The TLS
   server is not expected to process or include this extension when a
   TLS session is resumed, since session resumption uses the original
   session information.

8.  Certification Authorities

8.1.  X.509v3 Extension

   One or more SCTs can be embedded in an X.509v3 extension that is
   included in a certificate or an OCSP response.  Since RFC5280
   requires the "extnValue" field (an OCTET STRING) of each X.509v3
   extension to include the DER encoding of an ASN.1 value, we cannot
   embed a "SignedCertificateTimestampList" directly.  Instead, we have
   to wrap it inside an additional OCTET STRING (see below), which we
   then put into the "extnValue" field.

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   A certification authority may embed one or more SCTs in OCSP
   responses pertaining to the end-entity certificate, by including a
   non-critical "singleExtensions" extension with OID
   1.3.6.1.4.1.11129.2.4.5 whose "extnValue" contains:

       CertificateSCTList ::= OCTET STRING

   "CertificateSCTList" contains a "SignedCertificateTimestampList"
   whose SCTs all have the "x509_entry" "LogEntryType".

8.1.2.  Certificate Extension

   A certification authority that has submitted a precertificate to one
   or more logs may embed the obtained SCTs in the "TBSCertificate" that
   will be signed to produce the certificate, by including a non-
   critical X.509v3 extension with OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.11129.2.4.2 whose
   "extnValue" contains:

       PrecertificateSCTList ::= OCTET STRING

   "PrecertificateSCTList" contains a "SignedCertificateTimestampList"
   whose SCTs all have the "precert_entry_V2" "LogEntryType".

   Upon receiving the certificate, clients can reconstruct the original
   "TBSCertificate" to verify the SCT signatures.

9.  Clients

   There are various different functions clients of logs might perform.
   We describe here some typical clients and how they should function.
   Any inconsistency may be used as evidence that a log has not behaved
   correctly, and the signatures on the data structures prevent the log
   from denying that misbehavior.

   All clients need various metadata in order to communicate with logs
   and verify their responses.  This metadata is described below, but
   note that this document does not describe how the metadata is
   obtained, which is implementation dependent (see, for example,
   [Chromium.Policy]).

   Clients should somehow exchange STHs they see, or make them available
   for scrutiny, in order to ensure that they all have a consistent
   view.  The exact mechanisms will be in separate documents, but it is
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9.1.  Metadata

   In order to communicate with and verify a log, clients need metadata
   about the log.

   Base URL:  The URL to substitute for <log server> in Section 6.

   Hash Algorithm  The hash algorithm used for the Merkle Tree (see
      Section 11.2).

   Signing Algorithm  The signing algorithm used (see Section 2.1.4).

   Public Key  The public key used for signing.

   Maximum Merge Delay  The MMD the log has committed to.

   Version  The version of the protocol supported by the log (currently
      1 or 2).

   Maximum Chain Length  The longest chain submission the log is willing
      to accept, if the log chose to limit it.

   STH Frequency Count  The maximum number of STHs the log may produce
      in any period equal to the "Maximum Merge Delay" (see
      Section 5.5).

   Final STH  If a log has been closed down (i.e. no longer accepts new
      entries), existing entries may still be valid.  In this case, the
      client should know the final valid STH in the log to ensure no new
      entries can be added without detection.

   [JSON.Metadata] is an example of a metadata format which includes the
   above elements.

9.2.  TLS Client

   TLS clients receive SCTs alongside or in certificates, either for the
   server certificate itself or for a name-constrained intermediate the
   server certificate chains to.  TLS clients MUST implement all of the
   three mechanisms by which TLS servers may present SCTs (see
   Section 7).  TLS clients that support the
   "signed_certificate_timestamp" TLS extension SHOULD include it, with
   empty "extension_data", in ClientHello messages.

   In addition to normal validation of the certificate and its chain,
   TLS clients SHOULD validate each SCT by computing the signature input
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   signature, using the corresponding log's public key.  TLS clients
   MUST reject SCTs whose timestamp is in the future.

   By validating SCTs, TLS clients can thus determine whether
   certificates are compliant.  A certificate not accompanied by a valid
   SCT MUST NOT be considered compliant by TLS clients.  However,
   specifying the TLS clients' behavior once compliance or non-
   compliance has been determined (for example, whether a certificate
   should be rejected due to the lack of valid SCTs) is outside the
   scope of this document.

   A TLS client MAY audit the corresponding log by requesting, and
   verifying, a Merkle audit proof for said certificate.  If the TLS
   client holds an STH that predates the SCT, it MAY, in the process of
   auditing, request a new STH from the log (Section 6.3), then verify
   it by requesting a consistency proof (Section 6.4).

9.3.  Monitor

   Monitors watch logs and check that they behave correctly.  Monitors
   may additionally watch for certificates of interest.  For example, a
   monitor may be configured to report on all certificates that apply to
   a specific domain name when fetching new entries for consistency
   validation.

   A monitor needs to, at least, inspect every new entry in each log it
   watches.  It may also want to keep copies of entire logs.  In order
   to do this, it should follow these steps for each log:

   1.  Fetch the current STH (Section 6.3).

   2.  Verify the STH signature.

   3.  Fetch all the entries in the tree corresponding to the STH
       (Section 6.7).

   4.  Confirm that the tree made from the fetched entries produces the
       same hash as that in the STH.

   5.  Fetch the current STH (Section 6.3).  Repeat until the STH
       changes.

   6.  Verify the STH signature.

   7.  Fetch all the new entries in the tree corresponding to the STH
       (Section 6.7).  If they remain unavailable for an extended
       period, then this should be viewed as misbehavior on the part of
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   8.  Either:

       1.  Verify that the updated list of all entries generates a tree
           with the same hash as the new STH.

       Or, if it is not keeping all log entries:

       1.  Fetch a consistency proof for the new STH with the previous
           STH (Section 6.4).

       2.  Verify the consistency proof.

       3.  Verify that the new entries generate the corresponding
           elements in the consistency proof.

   9.  Go to Step 5.

9.4.  Auditing

   Auditing is taking partial information about a log as input and
   verifying that this information is consistent with other partial
   information held.  All clients described above may perform auditing
   as an additional function.  The action taken by the client if audit
   fails is not specified, but note that in general if audit fails, the
   client is in possession of signed proof of the log's misbehavior.

   A monitor (Section 9.3) can audit by verifying the consistency of
   STHs it receives, ensure that each entry can be fetched and that the
   STH is indeed the result of making a tree from all fetched entries.

   A TLS client (Section 9.2) can audit by verifying an SCT against any
   STH dated after the SCT timestamp + the Maximum Merge Delay by
   requesting a Merkle inclusion proof (Section 6.5).  It can also
   verify that the SCT corresponds to the certificate it arrived with
   (i.e. the log entry is that certificate, is a precertificate for that
   certificate or is an appropriate name-constrained intermediate [see
   Section 4.3]).

   The following algorithm outlines may be useful for clients that wish
   to perform various audit operations.

9.4.1.  Verifying an inclusion proof

   When a client has received an "audit_path" and "leaf_index" and
   wishes to verify inclusion of an input "hash" for an STH with a given
   "tree_size" and "root_hash", the following algorithm may be used to
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   1.  Set "fn" to "leaf_index" and "sn" to "tree_size - 1".

   2.  Set "r" to "hash".

   3.  For each value "p" in the "audit_path" array:

       If "LSB(fn)" is set, or if "fn" is equal to "sn", then:

       1.  Set "r" to "HASH(0x01 || p || r)"

       2.  If "LSB(fn)" is not set, then right-shift both "fn" and "sn"
           equally until either "LSB(fn)" is set or "fn" is "0".

       Otherwise:

          Set "r" to "HASH(0x01 || r || p)"

       Finally, right-shift both "fn" and "sn" one time.

   4.  Compare "r" against the "root_hash".  If they are equal, then the
       log has proven the inclusion of "hash".

9.4.2.  Verifying consistency between two STHs

   When a client has an STH "first_hash" for tree size "first", an STH
   "second_hash" for tree size "second" where "0 < first < second", and
   has received a "consistency" array that they wish to use to verify
   both hashes, the following algorithm may be used:

   1.  If "first" is an exact power of 2, then prepend "first_hash" to
       the "consistency" array.

   2.  Set "fn" to "first - 1" and "sn" to "second - 1".

   3.  If "LSB(fn)" is set, then right-shift both "fn" and "sn" equally
       until "LSB(fn)" is not set.

   4.  Set both "fr" and "sr" to the first value in the "consistency"
       array.

   5.  For each subsequent value "c" in the "consistency" array:

       If "LSB(fn)" is set, or if "fn" is equal to "sn", then:

       1.  Set "fr" to "HASH(0x01 || c || fr)"
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       2.  If "LSB(fn)" is not set, then right-shift both "fn" and "sn"
           equally until either "LSB(fn)" is set or "fn" is "0".

       Otherwise:

          Set "sr" to "HASH(0x01 || sr || c)"

       Finally, right-shift both "fn" and "sn" one time.

   6.  After completing iterating through the "consistency" array as
       described above, verify that the "fr" calculated is equal to the
       "first_hash" supplied and that the "sr" calculated is equal to
       the "second_hash" supplied.

9.4.3.  Verifying root hash given entries

   When a client has a complete list of leaf input "entries" from "0" up
   to "tree_size - 1" and wishes to verify this list against an STH
   "root_hash" returned by the log for the same "tree_size", the
   following algorithm may be used:

   1.  Set "stack" to an empty stack.

   2.  For each "i" from "0" up to "tree_size - 1":

       1.  Push "HASH(0x00 || entries[i])" to "stack".

       2.  Set "merge_count" to the lowest value ("0" included) such
           that "LSB(i >> merge_count)" is not set.  In other words, set
           "merge_count" to the number of consecutive "1"s found
           starting at the least significant bit of "i".

       3.  Repeat "merge_count" times:

           1.  Pop "right" from "stack".

           2.  Pop "left" from "stack".

           3.  Push "HASH(0x01 || left || right)" to "stack".

   3.  If there is more than one element in the "stack", repeat the same
       merge procedure (Step 2.3 above) until only a single element
       remains.

   4.  The remaining element in "stack" is the Merkle Tree hash for the
       given "tree_size" and should be compared by equality against the
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10.  Algorithm Agility

   It is not possible for a log to change any of its algorithms part way
   through its lifetime.  If it should become necessary to deprecate an
   algorithm used by a live log, then the log should be frozen as
   specified in Section 9.1 and a new log should be started.  If
   necessary, the new log can contain existing entries from the frozen
   log, which monitors can verify are an exact match.

11.  IANA Considerations

11.1.  TLS Extension Type

   IANA has allocated an RFC 5246 ExtensionType value (18) for the SCT
   TLS extension.  The extension name is "signed_certificate_timestamp".
   IANA should update this extension type to point at this document.

11.2.  Hash Algorithms

   IANA is asked to establish a registry of hash values, initially
   consisting of:

                     +-------+----------------------+
                     | Index | Hash                 |
                     +-------+----------------------+
                     | 0     | SHA-256 [FIPS.180-4] |
                     +-------+----------------------+

11.3.  SCT Extensions

   IANA is asked to establish a registry of SCT extensions, initially
   consisting of:

                           +-------+-----------+
                           | Type  | Extension |
                           +-------+-----------+
                           | 65535 | reserved  |
                           +-------+-----------+

   TBD: policy for adding to the registry

11.4.  STH Extensions

   IANA is asked to establish a registry of STH extensions, initially
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                           +-------+-----------+
                           | Type  | Extension |
                           +-------+-----------+
                           | 65535 | reserved  |
                           +-------+-----------+

   TBD: policy for adding to the registry

12.  Security Considerations

   With CAs, logs, and servers performing the actions described here,
   TLS clients can use logs and signed timestamps to reduce the
   likelihood that they will accept misissued certificates.  If a server
   presents a valid signed timestamp for a certificate, then the client
   knows that a log has committed to publishing the certificate.  From
   this, the client knows that the subject of the certificate has had
   some time to notice the misissue and take some action, such as asking
   a CA to revoke a misissued certificate, or that the log has
   misbehaved, which will be discovered when the SCT is audited.  A
   signed timestamp is not a guarantee that the certificate is not
   misissued, since the subject of the certificate might not have
   checked the logs or the CA might have refused to revoke the
   certificate.

   In addition, if TLS clients will not accept unlogged certificates,
   then site owners will have a greater incentive to submit certificates
   to logs, possibly with the assistance of their CA, increasing the
   overall transparency of the system.

12.1.  Misissued Certificates

   Misissued certificates that have not been publicly logged, and thus
   do not have a valid SCT, are not considered compliant (so TLS clients
   may decide, for example, to reject them).  Misissued certificates
   that do have an SCT from a log will appear in that public log within
   the Maximum Merge Delay, assuming the log is operating correctly.
   Thus, the maximum period of time during which a misissued certificate
   can be used without being available for audit is the MMD.

12.2.  Detection of Misissue

   The logs do not themselves detect misissued certificates; they rely
   instead on interested parties, such as domain owners, to monitor them
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12.3.  Redaction of Public Domain Name Labels

   CAs SHOULD NOT redact domain name labels in precertificates such that
   the entirety of the domain space below the unredacted part of the
   domain name is not owned or controlled by a single entity (e.g.
   "?.com" and "?.co.uk" would both be problematic).  Logs MUST NOT
   reject any precertificate that is overly redacted but which is
   otherwise considered compliant.  It is expected that monitors will
   treat overly redacted precertificates as potentially misissued.  TLS
   clients MAY reject a certificate whose corresponding precertificate
   would be overly redacted, perhaps using the same mechanism for
   determining whether a wildcard in a domain name of a certificate is
   too broad.

12.4.  Misbehaving Logs

   A log can misbehave in two ways: (1) by failing to incorporate a
   certificate with an SCT in the Merkle Tree within the MMD and (2) by
   violating its append-only property by presenting two different,
   conflicting views of the Merkle Tree at different times and/or to
   different parties.  Both forms of violation will be promptly and
   publicly detectable.

   Violation of the MMD contract is detected by log clients requesting a
   Merkle audit proof for each observed SCT.  These checks can be
   asynchronous and need only be done once per each certificate.  In
   order to protect the clients' privacy, these checks need not reveal
   the exact certificate to the log.  Clients can instead request the
   proof from a trusted auditor (since anyone can compute the audit
   proofs from the log) or request Merkle proofs for a batch of
   certificates around the SCT timestamp.

   Violation of the append-only property can be detected by clients
   comparing their instances of the Signed Tree Heads.  As soon as two
   conflicting Signed Tree Heads for the same log are detected, this is
   cryptographic proof of that log's misbehavior.  There are various
   ways this could be done, for example via gossip (see
   http://trac.tools.ietf.org/id/draft-linus-trans-gossip-00.txt) or
   peer-to-peer communications or by sending STHs to monitors (who could
   then directly check against their own copy of the relevant log).

12.5.  Multiple SCTs

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   o  If a CA and a log collude, it is possible to temporarily hide
      misissuance from clients.  Including SCTs from different logs
      makes it more difficult to mount this attack.

   o  If a log misbehaves, a consequence may be that clients cease to
      trust it.  Since the time an SCT may be in use can be considerable
      (several years is common in current practice when the SCT is
      embedded in a certificate), servers may wish to reduce the
      probability of their certificates being rejected as a result by
      including SCTs from different logs.

   o  TLS clients may have policies related to the above risks requiring
      servers to present multiple SCTs.  For example Chromium
      [Chromium.Log.Policy] currently requires multiple SCTs to be
      presented with EV certificates in order for the EV indicator to be
      shown.

13.  Efficiency Considerations

   The Merkle Tree design serves the purpose of keeping communication
   overhead low.

   Auditing logs for integrity does not require third parties to
   maintain a copy of each entire log.  The Signed Tree Heads can be
   updated as new entries become available, without recomputing entire
   trees.  Third-party auditors need only fetch the Merkle consistency
   proofs against a log's existing STH to efficiently verify the append-
   only property of updates to their Merkle Trees, without auditing the
   entire tree.

14.  Acknowledgements

   The authors would like to thank Erwann Abelea, Robin Alden, Al
   Cutter, Francis Dupont, Adam Eijdenberg, Stephen Farrell, Daniel Kahn
   Gillmor, Brad Hill, Jeff Hodges, Paul Hoffman, Jeffrey Hutzelman,
   Stephen Kent, SM, Alexey Melnikov, Linus Nordberg, Chris Palmer,
   Trevor Perrin, Pierre Phaneuf, Melinda Shore, Ryan Sleevi, Carl
   Wallace and Paul Wouters for their valuable contributions.

15.  References

15.1.  Normative References

   [DSS]      National Institute of Standards and Technology, "Digital
              Signature Standard (DSS)", FIPS 186-3, June 2009,
              <http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips186-3/
              fips_186-3.pdf>.




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   [FIPS.180-4]
              National Institute of Standards and Technology, "Secure
              Hash Standard", FIPS PUB 180-4, March 2012,
              <http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips180-4/
              fips-180-4.pdf>.

   [HTML401]  Raggett, D., Le Hors, A., and I. Jacobs, "HTML 4.01
              Specification", World Wide Web Consortium Recommendation
              REC-html401-19991224, December 1999,
              <http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224>.

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, DOI 10.17487/
              RFC2119, March 1997,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.

   [RFC2616]  Fielding, R., Gettys, J., Mogul, J., Frystyk, H.,
              Masinter, L., Leach, P., and T. Berners-Lee, "Hypertext
              Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1", RFC 2616, DOI 10.17487/
              RFC2616, June 1999,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2616>.

   [RFC3447]  Jonsson, J. and B. Kaliski, "Public-Key Cryptography
              Standards (PKCS) #1: RSA Cryptography Specifications
              Version 2.1", RFC 3447, DOI 10.17487/RFC3447, February
              2003, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3447>.

   [RFC4627]  Crockford, D., "The application/json Media Type for
              JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)", RFC 4627, DOI
              10.17487/RFC4627, July 2006,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4627>.

   [RFC4648]  Josefsson, S., "The Base16, Base32, and Base64 Data
              Encodings", RFC 4648, DOI 10.17487/RFC4648, October 2006,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4648>.

   [RFC5246]  Dierks, T. and E. Rescorla, "The Transport Layer Security
              (TLS) Protocol Version 1.2", RFC 5246, DOI 10.17487/
              RFC5246, August 2008,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5246>.

   [RFC5280]  Cooper, D., Santesson, S., Farrell, S., Boeyen, S.,
              Housley, R., and W. Polk, "Internet X.509 Public Key
              Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List
              (CRL) Profile", RFC 5280, DOI 10.17487/RFC5280, May 2008,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5280>.





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   [RFC5652]  Housley, R., "Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)", STD 70,
              RFC 5652, DOI 10.17487/RFC5652, September 2009,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5652>.

   [RFC5905]  Mills, D., Martin, J., Ed., Burbank, J., and W. Kasch,
              "Network Time Protocol Version 4: Protocol and Algorithms
              Specification", RFC 5905, DOI 10.17487/RFC5905, June 2010,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5905>.

   [RFC6066]  Eastlake 3rd, D., "Transport Layer Security (TLS)
              Extensions: Extension Definitions", RFC 6066, DOI
              10.17487/RFC6066, January 2011,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6066>.

   [RFC6125]  Saint-Andre, P. and J. Hodges, "Representation and
              Verification of Domain-Based Application Service Identity
              within Internet Public Key Infrastructure Using X.509
              (PKIX) Certificates in the Context of Transport Layer
              Security (TLS)", RFC 6125, DOI 10.17487/RFC6125, March
              2011, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6125>.

   [RFC6960]  Santesson, S., Myers, M., Ankney, R., Malpani, A.,
              Galperin, S., and C. Adams, "X.509 Internet Public Key
              Infrastructure Online Certificate Status Protocol - OCSP",
              RFC 6960, DOI 10.17487/RFC6960, June 2013,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6960>.

   [RFC6979]  Pornin, T., "Deterministic Usage of the Digital Signature
              Algorithm (DSA) and Elliptic Curve Digital Signature
              Algorithm (ECDSA)", RFC 6979, DOI 10.17487/RFC6979, August
              2013, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6979>.

15.2.  Informative References

   [Chromium.Log.Policy]
              The Chromium Projects, "Chromium Certificate Transparency
              Log Policy", 2014, <http://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-
              security/certificate-transparency/log-policy>.

   [Chromium.Policy]
              The Chromium Projects, "Chromium Certificate
              Transparency", 2014, <http://www.chromium.org/Home/
              chromium-security/certificate-transparency>.








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   [CrosbyWallach]
              Crosby, S. and D. Wallach, "Efficient Data Structures for
              Tamper-Evident Logging", Proceedings of the 18th USENIX
              Security Symposium, Montreal, August 2009,
              <http://static.usenix.org/event/sec09/tech/full_papers/
              crosby.pdf>.

   [EVSSLGuidelines]
              CA/Browser Forum, "Guidelines For The Issuance And
              Management Of Extended Validation Certificates", 2007,
              <https://cabforum.org/wp-content/uploads/
              EV_Certificate_Guidelines.pdf>.

   [JSON.Metadata]
              The Chromium Projects, "Chromium Log Metadata JSON
              Schema", 2014, <http://www.certificate-transparency.org/
              known-logs/log_list_schema.json>.

   [RFC6962]  Laurie, B., Langley, A., and E. Kasper, "Certificate
              Transparency", RFC 6962, DOI 10.17487/RFC6962, June 2013,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6962>.

Authors' Addresses

   Ben Laurie
   Google UK Ltd.

   EMail: benl@google.com


   Adam Langley
   Google Inc.

   EMail: agl@google.com


   Emilia Kasper
   Google Switzerland GmbH

   EMail: ekasper@google.com


   Eran Messeri
   Google UK Ltd.

   EMail: eranm@google.com





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   Rob Stradling
   Comodo CA, Ltd.

   EMail: rob.stradling@comodo.com















































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