[cabfpub] Intermediate certificate names

[Jeremy Rowley]

>From Peter Bowen at Amazon:

How do you define "the real CA"?
Is it the company that manages the CPS, writes the management assertion, and is identified in the auditor's opinion letter?
Or is it the company who employs people to perform validation, create and sign certificates, and respond to status requests?

Thanks,
Peter



From: Eddy Nigg [mailto:eddy_nigg at startcom.org]
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 10:56 AM
To: Geoff Keating; Jeremy Rowley
Cc: CABFPub
Subject: Re: [cabfpub] Intermediate certificate names


On 03/10/2015 08:31 AM, Geoff Keating wrote:
Perhaps you could make the common name something like "DigiCert issuing for Customer Name, Inc." or similar?

I don't think this is a good idea - I believe the organization name should correctly identify the company to whom the certificate was issued.

When we issue a certificate to an end-user we correctly identify that entity (in the verified settings). If we issue an intermediate CA to an external entity why should this be any different? We should identify the entity we validated and for whom we issued the intermediate CA certificate (even if that entity doesn't control the private key, e.g. a manged and controlled solution by the parent CA).
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