Ballot 117 – EV Code Signing Guidelines Corrections(passed)
Ballot 117 – EV Code Signing Guidelines Corrections Yea: ANF, Certinomis, DigiCert, GlobalSign, Izenpe, Logius PKIoverheid, OpenTrust, QuoVadis, SECOM Trust, SSC, StartCom, Symantec, Trend Micro, Trustis, WoSign, Microsoft, and Mozilla.
Nay: Comodo, Network Solutions, and Google.
Abstain: Buypass
Results: Ballot passed
Updated version is posted here on the EV Code Signing page.
Jeremy Rowley of DigiCert made the following motion, and Iñigo Barreira of Izenpe and Rick Andrews of Symantec endorsed it.
There are two issues with the EV code signing guidelines that need correction:
Section 9.2.2 of the EV code signing guidelines recommends that CAs not include the SAN extension in an EV certificate. However, section 9.7 requires that an EV certificate include subjectAltName:permanentIdentifier. Because the main concern is that a CA might include a domain name in the SAN extension, we should specify that this practice is not allowed and recognize that other information may be present.
Because the EV Code Signing Guidelines were originally based on the EV Guidelines for SSL, Section 9.2.3 of the EV code signing guidelines deprecates the CN field. However, the CABF Code Signing Working Group received a report that this field is still required by code signing applications. We should still include the CN in code signing certificates for the Subscriber’s legal name, even though the field is deprecated for use in SSL/TLS certificates.
-Motion Begins
Effective immediately:
a. Replace section 9.2.2 with the following:
“9.2.2 Subject Alternative Name Extension
This field MUST be present and MUST contain the permanentIdentifier specified in Section 9.7. This field MUST NOT contain a Domain Name or IP Address.”
b. Amend section 9.2.3 as follows:
“9.2.2 Subject Common Name Field
Certificate field: subject:commonName (OID 2.5.4.3)
Required/Optional: Required
Contents: This field MUST contain the Subject’s legal name as verified under Section 11.2.“
-Motion ends
The review period for this ballot shall commence at 2200 UTC on Monday, 10 March 2014, and will close at 2200 UTC on Monday, 17 March 2014.
Unless the motion is withdrawn during the review period, the voting period will start immediately thereafter and will close at 2200 UTC on Monday, 24 March 2014.
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