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Edits to 5.3 - Issue mozilla#229
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Made additional edits to section 5.3 (addressing Issue mozilla#229)
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BenWilson-Mozilla committed Feb 8, 2022
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All certificates that are capable of being used to issue working server or email certificates and
that directly or transitively chain to a CA certificate included in Mozilla’s CA
Certificate Program MUST be operated in accordance with this policy and MUST
be disclosed in the CCADB.
Certificate Program MUST be operated in accordance with this policy, audited, and disclosed in the CCADB.

A certificate is deemed as capable of being used to issue new
certificates if it contains an [X.509v3 basicConstraints extension][5280-6.1.4]
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(1) the certificate's Issuer Distinguished Name matches (according to the name-matching algorithm specified in RFC 5280, section 7.1) the Subject Distinguished Name in a CA certificate or intermediate certificate that is in scope according to section 1.1 of this Policy, and
(2) the certificate is signed with a Private Key whose corresponding Public Key is encoded in the SubjectPublicKeyInfo of that CA certificate or intermediate certificate.

The term "subordinate CA" in this section
The term "intermediate CA operator" in this section
refers to any organization or legal entity that is in possession
or control of a certificate that is capable of being used to
issue new certificates.
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