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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.

Latest releases

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
v1.0.6 - Ballot SMC08 - Aug 29, 2024

This ballot sets a date by which issuance of certificates following the Legacy generation profiles must cease. It also includes the following minor updates:

Pins the domain validation procedures to v 2.0.5 of the TLS Baseline Requirements while the ballot activity for multi-perspective validation is concluded, and the SMCWG determines its corresponding course of action;
Updates the reference for SmtpUTF8Mailbox from RFC 8398 to RFC 9598; and
Small text corrections in the Reference section

Network and Certificate System Security Requirements
v2.0 - Ballot NS-003 - Jun 26, 2024

Ballot NS-003: Restructure the NCSSRs in https://github.com/cabforum/netsec/pull/35