Regulations on Required Information for Certification Practice Statements Article 2

These Regulations make use of the following defined terms:1.“Assurance” means a basis that the trusted entity has complied with certain security requirements.2.“Assurance level” means a certain level in a relative assurance tier.3.“Certificate policy (CP)” means a named set of rules that indicates the applicability of a certificate to a particular community or class of application with common security requirements.4.“Object identifier (OID)” means a unique alphanumeric/numeric identifier registered under the International Standard Organization registration standard, and which could be used to identify the uniquely corresponding CP; where the CP is modified, the OID is not changed accordingly.5.“Subscriber” means a subject named or identified in a certificate that holds the private key which corresponds to the public key listed in the certificate. 6.“Relying party” means a recipient of a certificate who acts in reliance on that certificate.7.“Repository” means a system for storing and retrieving certificates or other information relevant to certificates.8.“Certificate revocation list (CRL)” means a list of revoked certificates digitally signed by a certification service provider.9.“Activation data” means data values other than keys, thArticleArticlet are required to operate cryptographic modules and that need to be protected.