On Tue, Aug 30, 2005, Philipp Ghring wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I would like to know which policy and requirements OpenSSL has for 
> certification authorities to get their root certificate included into the 
> OpenSSL distribution.
> 

There isn't any formal policy in place, other than the CA agreeing that the
certificate can be included under the OpenSSL license.

Other than that we need some indication that the CA is genuine: for example if
the root CA is part of a browser root list.

Steve.
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