Nelson Bolyard wrote:
> FYI, The documents for Microsoft's Root Certificate program
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/security/news/rootcert.mspx?mfr=true
> were updated somewhat recently.  Very interesting reading.
>
> They require annual audits.
>
> Every root CA has EKU info associated with it, limiting the applications
> for that CA.
>
>   
Indeed very interesting! And it was about time, because their previous 
policy/program was, to say the least, incomplete if not outright 
misleading (compared to their actual practice). It seems that they have 
corrected it.

Interesting also that they covered issues we've touched recently here, 
one might think that they actively monitor this mailing list ;-)

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