Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) wrote:
> According to Mozilla CA policy
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/certs/policy/ section 4:
> 
> "...might cause technical problems with the operation of our software,
> for example, with CAs that issue certificates that have..."
> "...duplicate issuer names and serial numbers"
> 
> Now I'm not sure if this applies or not (but remembering also from EV),
> root certificates from the same CA MUST NOT have the same serial number.
> 
> The ARGE DATEN roots have duplicate serial numbers (
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/certs/pending/#ARGE%20DATEN ).

Yes, but they have different issuer names.  The rules is: no certs that
duplicate BOTH the issuer name and the serial number.   Maybe the policy
can be reworked slightly to make that clearer.

/Nelson

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