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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
SC095v3: Clean-up 2025 - Apr 2, 2026

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
v1.0.13 - Ballot SMC015v2 - Mar 28, 2026

This ballot introduces requirements that a CA or RA must follow to rely upon a Mobile Drivers License (mDL) to provide evidence for the authentication of individual identity. It allows the use of mDL that conform to ISO/IEC 18013-5 and which may be verified by the CA or RA in conformance with ISO/IEC 18013-7. The CA or RA shall only accept mDL from an Issuing Authority that is legally authorized by the relevant government or jurisdiction to issue driving licenses. The draft also aligns the subsections of 3.2.4.2 (Validation of individual identity) to correspond more closely with those in 3.2.4.1 (Attribute collection of individual identity). It also includes minor editorial corrections. SMC015v2 was updated to remove an additional reference to the superceded ETSI EN 319 403. This ballot is proposed by Stephen Davidson (DigiCert) and endorsed by Ben Wilson (Mozilla) and Scott Rea (eMudhra).

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