325K.09 GENERAL REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTIFICATION AUTHORITIES.
Subdivision 1.
Use of trustworthy system. A licensed certification authority or subscriber
may use only a trustworthy system:
(1) to issue, suspend, or revoke a certificate;
(2) to publish or give notice of the issuance, suspension, or revocation of a certificate; or
(3) to create a private key.
Subd. 2.
Disclosure required. A licensed certification authority shall disclose any material
certification practice statement and disclose any fact material to either the reliability of a certificate
that it has issued or its ability to perform its services. A certification authority may require a signed,
written, and reasonably specific inquiry from an identified person and payment of reasonable
compensation as conditions precedent to effecting a disclosure required in this subdivision.
Subd. 3.
Acceptance. A recipient who accepts a digital signature when the certificate was
issued by a licensed certification authority becomes a party to and accepts all of the terms and
conditions of the licensed certification authority's certification practice statement.
History: 1997 c 178 s 10; 1999 c 250 art 1 s 97