Well, in my opinion that's not a good thing.

Adriano

Il 16/10/2023 16:16, Martijn Katerbarg ha scritto:

Hi Adriano,


Yes, I do believe you’re correct. Taking your example, the only difference would be the Policy OID in the certificate.

I’m not sure why anyone would in that case opt for a Sponsor Validated cert over OV, however it does appear to be compliant, yet only for Legacy templates.

Regards,

Martijn

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Hello all,

I have the impression that the current SMBRs allow to issue Sponsor-Validated certificates which, contrary to the definition of this type of certificate, do not contain any "Individual (Natural Person) attributes" (quoting from the definition of Sponsor-Validated). At least, this seems to hold for the "Legacy Generation profiles".

  * according to §3.1.1 and §7.1.4.2.2, the commonName does not
    necessarily have to contain a Personal Name (in fact it MAY
    contain a Mailbox Address)

  * according to §7.1.4.2.5, givenName and surname attributes are not
    required in "Legacy Generation profiles".

Furthermore, as already discussed in a previous thread, there is no requirement that a personal email address have a "personal" appearance (e.g. forename.surn...@company.com).

Therefore, if I understand correctly, a Subject of the following type within a "Legacy" SV (Sponsor-Validated) certificate would be 100% compliant:

CN=i...@example.com, O=Example HmbH, organizationIdentifier=NTRXX-xxxxx, C=XX

If this is true, it would make no difference if the certificate was OV rather than SV: the Subject could be identical in the two cases, and it would be devoid of "Individual (Natural Person) attibutes".

Is the above correct, or am I missing something?

Adriano

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