Hi Peter,

I generally agree with your list of statements, but #7 is imprecise:

On Sun, 5 Mar 2017 22:06:31 -0800
Peter Bowen <[email protected]> wrote:

> 7) The only entity that knows if a certificate for their domain was
> not supposed to be issued is entity who was the domain registrant at
> the time of issuance.

To be more precise, the only entity that knows if a certificate for
their domain *did not undergo proper domain validation* is the entity
who was the domain registrant at the time of issuance[1].  Many other
types of misissuances can be detected by anyone, such as SHA-1,
encoding errors, illegal characters in dnsName SANs, overly-long
validity, etc.

Regards,
Andrew

[1] technically, at the time the CA is required to check, but that's
beside the point

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