Ballot Results
The voting period for Ballot SC27v3 has ended and the Ballot has Passed. Here are the results:
Voting by Certificate Issuers – 15 votes total including abstentions
– 9 Yes votes: Buypass, Camerfirma, Certum (Asseco), GDCA, HARICA, Let’s Encrypt, SHECA, SSL.com, TrustCor
– 0 No votes:
– 6 Abstain: Certigna (DHIMYOTIS), Entrust Datacard, Firmaprofesional, GlobalSign, SwissSign, TurkTrust
100% of voting Certificate Issuers voted in favor.
Voting by Certificate Consumers – 4 votes total including abstentions
– 4 Yes votes: Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla
– 0 No votes:
– 0 Abstain:
100% of voting Certificate Consumers voted in favor.
Relevant Bylaw references
Bylaw 2.3(f) requires:
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a “yes” vote by two-thirds of Certificate Issuer votes and 50%-plus-one
Certificate Consumer votes for approval. Votes to abstain are not
counted for this purpose. This requirement was met for both Certificate Issuers and Certificate Consumers.
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at least one Certificate Issuer and one Certificate Consumer Member
must vote in favor of a ballot for the ballot to be adopted. This
requirement was also met.
Under Bylaw 2.3(g), “a ballot result will be considered valid only when more than half of the number of currently active Members has participated”. Votes to abstain are counted in determining a quorum. Half of currently active Members as of the start of voting was 10, so quorum was 11 votes – quorum was met.”
Ballot SC27v3: Version 3 Onion Certificates
Purpose of Ballot:
This
ballot will permit CAs to issue DV and OV certificates containing Tor
onion addresses using the newer version 3 naming format.
In
ballot 144, later clarified by ballots 198/201, the Forum created rules
for issuing EV certificates containing onion addresses. A primary
reason for requiring EV level validation was that onion addresses were
cryptographically weak, relying on RSA-1024 and SHA-1. More recently a
newer “version 3” addressing scheme has removed these weaknesses. For
much the same reason that EV certificates are not always a viable option
for website operators (e.g. sites operated by individuals), many onion
sites would benefit from the availability of DV and OV certificates for
version 3 onion addresses.
The Tor
Service Descriptor Hash extension required in the EV Guidelines to
contain the full hash of the keys related to the .onion address is no
longer needed as this hash is part of the version 3 address.
Older
version 2 onion addresses are still in use, so this ballot does not
remove the existing EV Guidelines requirements for onion names.
Reference to discussion of EV onion certificates: https://cabforum.org/pipermail/public/2014-November/004569.html
Reference to reasons we required EV in the past: https://cabforum.org/pipermail/public/2015-November/006213.html
Reference to prior discussion of this topic: https://cabforum.org/pipermail/public/2017-November/012451.html
The following motion has been proposed by Wayne Thayer of Mozilla and endorsed by Roland Shoemaker of Let’s Encrypt and Dimitris Zacharopoulos of HARICA.
— MOTION BEGINS —
This ballot modifies the “Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted Certificates” as follows, based on Version 1.6.7, or based on Version 1.6.7 as modified by ballot SC25:
ADD a paragraph to section 3.2.2.4 of the Baseline Requirements as defined in the following redline: https://github.com/cabforum/documents/compare/16a5a9bb78a193266f8d1465de1ee5a1acf5d184..f7a2dba4a2dd6b7209c71c862ad68dca960b6de9
ADD Appendix C to the Baseline Requirements as defined in the following redline: https://github.com/cabforum/documents/compare/16a5a9bb78a193266f8d1465de1ee5a1acf5d184..f7a2dba4a2dd6b7209c71c862ad68dca960b6de9
This ballot modifies the “Guidelines for the Issuance and Management of Extended Validation Certificates” as follows based on version 1.7.1:
MODIFY Appendix F as defined in the following redline: https://github.com/cabforum/documents/compare/16a5a9bb78a193266f8d1465de1ee5a1acf5d184..f7a2dba4a2dd6b7209c71c862ad68dca960b6de9
— MOTION ENDS —
This ballot proposes two Final Maintenance Guidelines.
The procedure for approval of this ballot is as follows:
Discussion (7+ days)
Start Time: 25-January 2020 00:00 UTC
End Time: 12-February 2020 20:00 UTC
Vote for approval (7 days)
Start Time: 12-February 2020 20:00 UTC
End Time: 19-February 2020 20:00 UTC