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certificate policy
(I) "A named set of rules that indicates the applicability of a
certificate to a particular community and/or class of application
with common security requirements." [X509] (See: certification
practice statement.)
(C) A certificate policy can help a certificate user decide
whether a certificate should be trusted in a particular
application. "For example, a particular certificate policy might
indicate applicability of a type of certificate for the
authentication of electronic data interchange transactions for the
trading goods within a given price range." [R2527]
(C) A v3 X.509 public-key certificate may have a
"certificatePolicies" extension that lists certificate policies,
recognized by the issuing CA, that apply to the certificate and
govern its use. Each policy is denoted by an object identifier and
may optionally have certificate policy qualifiers.
(C) SET usage: Every SET certificate specifies at least one
certificate policy, that of the SET root CA. SET uses certificate
policy qualifiers to point to the actual policy statement and to
add qualifying policies to the root policy. (See: SET qualifier.)
