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> A new encrypted protocol for Developer ID certificate revocation checks

Apple's online verification scheme still seems to be the wrong approach both for privacy (since it leaks information) and for security (since apps still need to keep working offline and during service outages.) Encrypted queries can still leak information to observers, and we apparently still have to trust Apple to "remove" information from their logs (rather than simply not logging to begin with.)

Dev certificate revocations are rare enough that they can be handled by periodic updates to an on-device revocation list. This is similar to what Chrome does with its CRLSet.



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