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Ballot 14 – Allowed EKUs

Ballot 14 – Allowed EKUs (Passed Unanimously)

Motion

Bruce Morton has made the following motion, and Inigo Barreira and Johnathan Nightingale have endorsed it:

Motion begins

The Guidelines should be amended by the following erratum.

Erratum begins

  1. Replace the following paragraph from Section 1.(b)

“This version of the Guidelines addresses only requirements for EV Certificates intended to be used for server-authentication SSL/TLS on the Internet. Similar requirements for client-authentication SSL/TLS, S/MIME, code-signing, time-stamping, VoIP, IM, Web services, etc. may be covered in future versions.”

With:

“This version of the Guidelines addresses only requirements for EV Certificates intended to be used for SSL/TLS authentication on the Internet and code-signing. Similar requirements for S/MIME, time-stamping, VoIP, IM, Web services, etc. may be covered in future versions.”

  1. Add the following clause to Appendix B, section 3:

“(e) extKeyUsage

Either the value id-kp-serverAuth [RFC3280] or id-kp-clientAuth [RFC3280] or both values MUST be present. Server Gated Cryptography values 1.3.6.1.4.1.311.10.3.3 (msSGC) and 2.16.840.1.113730.4.1 (nsSGC) are NOT RECOMMENDED. Other values SHALL NOT be present.”

Erratum ends

Motion ends

The ballot review period comes into effect at 1700 EDT on (Tuesday) 3 June 2008, and will close at 1700EDT on (Tuesday) 10 June 2008. Unless the motion is withdrawn during the review period, the voting period will start immediately thereafter and will close at 1700 EDT on (Tuesday) 17 June 2008.

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Latest releases
Server Certificate Requirements
SC-089: Mass Revocation Planning - Aug 26, 2025

Code Signing Requirements
v3.8 - Aug 5, 2024

What’s Changed CSC-25: Import EV Guidelines to CS Baseline Requirements by @dzacharo in https://github.com/cabforum/code-signing/pull/38 Full Changelog: https://github.com/cabforum/code-signing/compare/v3.7...v3.8

S/MIME Requirements
v1.0.12 - Ballot SMC014 - Oct 13, 2025

This ballot introduces requirements that a Certificate Issuer MUST deploy DNSSEC validation back to the IANA DNSSEC root trust anchor on all DNS queries associated with CAA record lookups performed by the Primary Network Perspective, effective March 15, 2026. The ballot is intended to maintain consistency in the S/MIME Baseline Requirements with the requirements of Ballot SC-085 which implemented identical requirements in the TLS Baseline Requirements. Note: SC-085 also introduced requirements in TLS Baseline Requirements for the use of DNSSEC in domain control validation. These requirements are automatically adopted in the S/MIME BR by the email domain control methods that include a normative reference to section 3.2.2.4 of the TLS Baseline Requirements. The draft also includes minor corrections to web links in the text. This ballot is proposed by Stephen Davidson (DigiCert) and endorsed by Client Wilson (Apple) and Ashish Dhiman (GlobalSign).

Network and Certificate System Security Requirements
Version 2.0.5 (Ballot NS-008) - Jul 9, 2025

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