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<H1>Third Party Verification System Policy</H1>
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<H2>Preamble
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<P>This is a subsidiary policy under Assurance Policy (COD13). It
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documents the acceptance of Thawte-issued certificates and disclosers
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as inputs into the assurance process.
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<H2>Third Party Certificate
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<P>The CAs listed in Appendix A are approved to "this system".
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<P>If a certificate is examined by an Assurer (e.g., signed email)
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and determined to provide evidence of a Name and email address that
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matches the Name stored in the CAcert system, the Assurer may
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allocate 25 (???) Assurance Points (or as determined in the Appendix
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A).
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<P>This is only available to Assurers who are:
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<OL>
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<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm">Full Assurer with 50 Experience
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Points
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<LI><P>Assigned the Tverify role by support.
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<P>This may be only awarded once per Member.
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<P>This may be done automatically by the existing Tverify system.
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<H2>Other Web of Trust
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<P>Webs of Trust listed in Appendix B are approved for this system.
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<P>If evidence of full "assurer status" in the other Web of
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Trust is provided to an Assurer, then the Assurer may award 25
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Assurance Points, in addition to the above 25 points from the
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certificate.
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</P>
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<P>The Assurer must go to the other system and verify the Name. And
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DoB??? But the user has to enable each Assurer to check the DoB by
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means of the permitting an assurance in the other system.
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<P>Assurers enabled for this system must be:
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<OL>
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<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm">Full Assurer with 50 Experience
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Points
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<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm">Assigned the Tverify role by
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support.
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<LI><P>Full "assurer status" in the other system.
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</OL>
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<P>This may be only awarded once per Member.
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</P>
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<P><I>What about voting system....</I>
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<UL>
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<LI><P>optional : the user provides the web link in the directory of
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Thawte notaries. The user must display his name and CAcert account
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email address in the directory assurer message. The user can get 40
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extra points after manual checking,
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</UL>
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<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><I>This proves that the person is
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a "Thawte Notary" </I>
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<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><I>A TN has "100 Thawte trust
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points" which means that the Name, DoB, email address (by
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connecting into the system) have been checked by 3 people at least. </I>
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<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><I>Thawte Notary: There is no
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"test". </I>
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<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><I>Thawte Notary: There are some
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rules, what needs to be done, what not. <U>Find the rules</U>. </I>
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<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><I>http://www.thawte.com/secure-email/web-of-trust-wot/wot_notary.html</I></P>
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<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><I>http://www.thawte.com/secure-email/web-of-trust-wot/wot_rules.html</I></P>
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<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><I><A HREF="http://www.thawte.com/secure-email/web-of-trust-wot/wot_validation.html">http://www.thawte.com/secure-email/web-of-trust-wot/wot_validation.html</A></I></P>
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<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><I><A HREF="http://www.thawte.com/secure-email/web-of-trust-wot/wot_points.html">http://www.thawte.com/secure-email/web-of-trust-wot/wot_points.html</A></I></P>
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<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><I><A HREF="http://www.thawte.com/cps/">http://www.thawte.com/cps/</A>
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=> section 3.1.9 Authentication of Individual Identity </I>
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<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><I>Thawte Notary: complaints are
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reported to Thawte support, and support then requests all forms and
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documentation and copies of IDs, and support may do something ...
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<U>but this was before the change of liability, they may not care
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anymore</U> </I>
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<LI><P><I>Probably this should be 25 points? </I>
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</UL>
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<UL>
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<LI><P>optional: The user provides a scan of a government photo id.
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The user can get an extra 60 points after manual checking.
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</UL>
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<UL>
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<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><I>May need to make this mandatory
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so we can check the DoB. </I>
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<LI><P><I>Probably this should be 40 points? </I>
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<P><I>Agreed that experience as TN is not useful for CAcert
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Experience Points. So Maximum is 100.</I>
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<H2>Manual Points Allocation
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</H2>
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<P>If the user completes only step 1, the users get 50 points if the
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Thawte name matches the CAcert name : The process is fully automated
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and the user still can do later the optional steps.
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<P>In case the user completes steps 2 or 3, a Tverify-authorised
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Assurer does the following manual checks :
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<OL>
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<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm">check if the link to the Thawte
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WoT directory matches the name and email address of the CAcert
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account, and
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<LI><P>check if the photo id macthes the name and date of birth of
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the CAcert account.
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</P>
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</OL>
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<P>the CAcert Tverify community member votes Aye or Nay on the
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request (faithfullness) and optionally adds a comment on the reason
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why they reject the request.
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<P>If the requests gets 4 Naye, the requests is rejected, the user
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has to restart the process.
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<P>if the request gets 4 Aye, the requests is completed and the
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appropriate amount of Assurance points are added to the account,
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logged as an Tverify assurance. <I>BY WHOM?</I>
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<P>Each user step can granted points only once. The maximum is 150
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points. <B>BLECH</B>
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<H2>Manual Points Allocation
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</H2>
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<P>To be a Tverify Assurer, an Assurer must have:
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</P>
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<LI><P>full Thawte "Notary" status.
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</P>
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</UL>
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<P>Authorisation is done by .... the Support Officer (and confirmed
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by ??? Assurance Officer).
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</P>
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<P>Currently there are 7+ Assurers who are authorised to conduct the
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Tverify additional procedure.
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</P>
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<H2>System
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<P>An online system is run to accept the certificate. This is located
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at https://tverify.cacert.org/ This is a critical / non-critical
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system ????
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</P>
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<H2>Legal
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<P>WHat do the Thawte docs say about reliance, etc. Is there a
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possibility to do this? What is the liability position? <B>Chances
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are, there is no liability and no reliance permitted.</B> Which means
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... there is no reliance on the Name in the cert.
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<H2>OLD stuff
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<BLOCKQUOTE><B>OLD:</B>
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<BLOCKQUOTE><B>mandatory </B>: the users provides a Thawte assured
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certificate including the user name. If the name and email address in
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the certificate matches the name and email address recorded by CAcert
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exactly, the user is given 50 Assurance Points automatically by the
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online system.
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<LI><BLOCKQUOTE STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><I>no checking of date of
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birth, </I>
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<LI><BLOCKQUOTE STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><I>no alignment of these
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50 points with AP (statement, checking of date of birth, there may
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be some rules about middle names and extracting the name fields out
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of FirstName and LastName... this is in the system. <B>should check
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Thwarte doco to make a judgement call on what it is worth.</B> </I>
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<LI><BLOCKQUOTE><I>Probably this should be 25 points? </I>
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