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2021-12-02 Minutes of the Code Signing Certificate Working Group

Attendees

Andrea Holland, Atsushi Inaba, Bruce Morton, Chris Kemmerer, Correy Bonnell, Dean Coclin, Dimitris Zacharopoulos, Ian McMillan, Inigo Barreira, Janet Hines, Joanna Fox, Kiran Tummala, Michael Sykes, Sebastian Schulz, Tim Crawford, Tim Hollebeek

Minutes

Approved minutes from previous Nov 18, 2021 meeting

Discussion regarding SC-50 from Server Working Group

  • Bruce Morton suggests dropping SC-50 (Ballot is concerned with removal of 4.1.1)
  • Ian McMillan concurs with no other objections regarding SC-50

Ballot CSC-12

  • Revocation date verification ballot currently under IPR review; period ends Dec 03, 2021
  • Plan is push out latest version of CSBR’s Dec 03, 2021 afternoon

Ballot CSC-6

  • 11.7 (Processing High Risk Applicants)

processing requirements; Reference 16.3.1 updates keep existing language until Sep 2022

  • 11.3 (Age of Certificate Data)

Add sentence for consolidation of age data; Keep 13 months terminology

  • 16.3.2 (4) (Subscriber Private Key Verification)

IT Audit language augmented to include “suitable hardware crypto module” (standardize usage of term) & specify “Code Signing certificates”

Tim Crawford perceives language and definitions to be auditable as long as verification can be obtained

  • 16.3.2(3) (Subscriber Private Key Verification)

CA specifies CSP support and thus control

Need to define CSP

Consolidate 16.3.1 callouts to single reference in paragraph above (include “suitable hardware crypto module”)

CSBR Format Change

  • CSC-6 change pass IPR review; update 3647 format and integrate that language
  • Review current draft language of 3647 format
  • Cory B mapping tables

Provide full demonstration on how we manage document

Other Business

  • Open source projects

How to enable Code Signing certs for open source projects? Different policies?

Practices of Open Source project reviewed?

Guest speaker Open Source community representative

Next Meeting is December 16th, Meeting is adjourned

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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