Heikki Toivonen wrote:
> Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) wrote:
>   
>> WebTrust or not, is not a function here! But an audit confirms the
>> procedures and controls in place. The policy and practices of the CA are
>> the basis of this assessment, which is publicly available! Therefor they
>> are not secret and proprietary, which was your original wrong statement!
>> And yes, the policy and practices define the quality of those procedures!
>>     
>
> I am under the impression that the policies and practices are actually
> not publicly available. Can you provide links that document these for
> some common CAs, to the level described in the EV cert draft?
>   
For a starter try this: http://www.hecker.org/mozilla/ca-certificate-list
Next try the Authorities Certificate store of your  Firefox browser
And at last, try uncle Google...

BTW, it is common to place the CA policy in a prominent place on the CA
web site, after all, this is part of the legal contract between the CA -
subscriber and relying party. In theory a user (RP) should read the CA
policy of the issuing CA before trusting a certificate, otherwise how
should he know about the verifications performed or any other procedure
a CA promises? Obviously, this is not very  practical, hence our
proposal for a simplified but improved UI change!

Hope this answers your question...

-- 
Regards
 
Signer:      Eddy Nigg, StartCom Ltd.
Phone:       +1.213.341.0390
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