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Section 7 of the [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/certs/policy Mozilla CA Certificate Policy] states: “for a certificate to be used for digitally signing and/or encrypting email messages, the CA takes reasonable measures to verify that the entity submitting the request controls the email account associated with the email address referenced in the certificate”
The CA's public documentation needs to provide sufficient information describing how the email address is verified to be owned/controlled by the certificate subscriber. For instance, if a challenge-response type of procedure is used, than then there needs to be a brief description of the process. If public resources are used, then there should be a description of what which public resources that are used, what data is retrieved from public resources, and how that data is used to verify that the certificate subscriber owns/controls the email address.
The recommended way to satisfy this requirement is to perform a challenge-response type of procedure in which the CA sends email to the email address to be included in the certificate, and the applicant must respond in a way that demonstrates that they have control over that email address. For instance, the CA may send an email to the address to be included in the certificate, containing secret unpredictable information, giving the applicant a limited time to use the information within.
