# The CA SHOULD use a Linting process to test the technical accuracy of already issued Certificates against the sample set chosen for Self-Audits. — TLS certificate and CA requirement effective dates (CA/Browser Forum, Chrome, Mozilla)

For The CA SHOULD use a Linting process to test the technical accuracy of already issued Certificates against the sample set chosen for Self-Audits., requirement is The CA SHOULD use a Linting process to test the technical accuracy of already issued Certificates against the sample set chosen for Self-Audits; effective date is 2025-03-15; baseline requirements section is 8.7; authority is CA/Browser Forum TLS Baseline Requirements; scope is all publicly-trusted CAs issuing TLS server certificates, recorded from its source on 2026-08-05.

- **Requirement:** The CA SHOULD use a Linting process to test the technical accuracy of already issued Certificates against the sample set chosen for Self-Audits. _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Effective date:** 2025-03-15 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Baseline Requirements section:** 8.7 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Authority:** CA/Browser Forum TLS Baseline Requirements _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Scope:** all publicly-trusted CAs issuing TLS server certificates _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_

## What the source says

> 2025-03-15 | 8.7 | The CA SHOULD use a Linting process to test the technical accuracy of already issued Certificates against the sample set chosen for Self-Audits.

## Source

- https://cabforum.org/working-groups/server/baseline-requirements/requirements/

Last verified: 2026-08-05. Review by: 2026-11-03.
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