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CA/B Forum Releases Code Signing Baseline Requirements – Final Draft for Public Exposure

The Code Signing Working Group of the CA/Browser Forum announces the final draft of the Code Signing Baseline Requirements. This version takes into account comments received in the first round of public review as well as comments from WebTrust auditors. Additional changes/corrections were incorporated by the working group over the past 3 months. Baseline requirements for codesigning – Feb 4 2015 This version is being sent out to the public mailing list and will be posted on the CA/B Forum website for final comments until March 6th, 2015.

Comments should be sent to: questions@cabforum.org.

If there are no further comments, the group plans to propose a ballot to the CA/B Forum in mid-March to approve the Baseline Requirements. The team wishes to thank the following companies/organizations for participating in the working group: CACert Comodo Digicert Entrust ETSI Federal PKI Firmprofessional Globalsign Intarsys Izenpe Microsoft OTA Alliance Startcom Symantec SwissSign Travelport Trend Micro WebTrust WoSign

From the beginning, we have endeavored to keep the document formation process open and inclusive and we hope everyone feels that this contribution is significant to the improvement of Internet security. Dean Coclin CA/B Forum Chair

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