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2023-04-06 Minutes of the Code Signing Certificate Working Group

Attendees

Atsushi Inaba (Globalsign), Ben Dewberry (Keyfactor), Brianca Martin (Amazon), Corey Bonnell (DigiCert), Dean Coclin (DigiCert), Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA), Janet Hines (Viking Cloud), Martijn Karterbarg (Sectigo), Mohit Kumar (Globalsign), Tim Crawford (BDO), Tomas Gustavson (Keyfactor)

Minutes

Minute taker: Dean Coclin

  1. The Anti-Trust summary was read
  2. Three sets of prior meeting minutes were approved: F2F, March 9 and March 23.
  3. Malware based revocation: Martijn stated that this was ready for ballot. The PR on github has been created. CSCWG 18 is the ballot number. Martijn will send out a summary and proposed ballot.
  4. Signing Service Update: Bruce was unable to attend, hence this topic was tabled until the next call
  5. Removing SSL BR references: Dimitris reviewed some of the changes to the BRs. Martijn agreed to help divide the upcoming work. Various sections were reviewed and updated in the document which Dimitris is maintaining on Git. All the modifications can be found on the Git repository. We expect to consider the import of the BRs at the next meeting. Following this, we will work on the references to the EV guidelines.
  6. Next meeting on April 20th.
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

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