Overview#

Certification Authority Browser Forum also known as CA-Browser Forum, is a voluntary consortium of certification authorities, vendors of Internet browser software, Operating Systems, and other PKI-enabled applications that promulgates industry guidelines governing the issuance and management of X.509 v.3 digital certificates that chain to a Trust Anchor embedded in such applications.

Certification Authority Browser Forum guidelines cover certificates used for the SSL/TLS protocol and code signing, as well as system and network security of certification authorities.

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• CA-Browser Forum
• Certificate Validation
• DNS Certification Authority Authorization
• Domain Authorization Document
• Extended Validation Certificate

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• [#1] - CA/Browser_Forum - based on information obtained 2017-06-18-