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2022-07-28 Minutes of the Code Signing Certificate Working Group

Attendees

Andrea Holland (SecureTrust), Atsushi Inaba (GlobalSign), Bruce Morton (Entrust), Dean Coclin (DigiCert), Joanna Fox (TrustCor), Martijn Katerbarg (Sectigo), Michael Sykes (SSL.com), Mohit Kumar (GlobalSign), Tim Crawford (CPA Canada/WebTrust)

Minutes

Antitrust Statement: Read by Dean Coclin

Minute Taker: Tim Crawford

No comments on minutes from 7/14/2022, minutes approved

Welcome back Bruce

Membership

Visa has applied as an interested party. It was noted Visa is a CAB Forum member and an agreement is in place. No issues were noted with this application, and it was approved.

Signing Service

Bruce is looking to turn the reformatted document into a ballot for review. Bruce would like Ian (Microsoft) to review the ballot during our next call in two weeks. Bruce does not believe any current ballots will impact the current state of the signing service ballot.

Time Stamping

Three or four items have been discussed, but waiting on Ian (Microsoft) to make a proposal

Malware update

Currently waiting on comments from Tim H (DigiCert), and the proposal is good to move forward once those comments are received.

Next meeting 8/11 – At this meeting we will include further discussion on Time stamping.

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