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CA/Required or Recommended Practices

249 bytes added, 17:14, 27 November 2007
Add note about character sets in certs
This page contains a draft set of recommended practices for CAs wishing to have their root CA certificates included in Mozilla products. In some cases these practices are specified or implied by the [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/certs/policy Mozilla CA certificate policy], and are mandatory for a CA to have its root certificate(s) included. In other cases the recommended practices are not mandatory per policy, but will help speed up a CA's application for inclusion and maximize the chances of its application being approved.
==== Recommended practices:====
* CAs should supply the complete Certification Policy (CP) and Certification Practice Statement (CPS) containing sufficient information to determine whether and how the CA complies with the Mozilla policy requirements.
** All documents supplied as evidence should be publicly available.
** Documents purporting to be from the CA's auditor (or other evaluator) should be available directly from the auditor (e.g., as documents downloadable from the auditor's web site.)
 
==== Notes for future work ====
 
* What (if anything) should we do regarding the use of non US-ASCII character sets in certs? To what extent is this supported today in NSS and by CAs? This whole problem seems analogous to the IDN problem.
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