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2023-05-04 Minutes of the Code Signing Certificate Working Group

Attendees

Atsushi Inaba (GlobalSign), Ben Dewberry (Keyfactor), Bruce Morton (Entrust), Corey Bonnell (DigiCert), Dean Coclin (DigiCert), Eva Van Steenberge (GlobalSign), Ian McMillan (Microsoft), Janet Hines (VikingCloud), Martijn Katerbarg (Sectigo), Mohit Kumar (GlobalSign), Rollin Yu (TrustAsia), Tim Crawford (BDO), Tim Hollebeek (DigiCert)

Minutes

Antitrust statement: The Antitrust statement was read.

Approval of minutes: Minutes for 26 January 2023 & 20 April 2023 approved

Ballot: CSC 18 – Malware base revocation (Martijn)
Sending out v2.1 soon
Noted a few small changes
Request from Ian
Changed effective date to allow both using the new procedure right away or wait until the effective date (April 15, 2024)
Tim will send around internally for review.
Ballot: Remove SSL BR References (Dimitris was not present so Bruce gave update)
Review of the capitalized terms has started but is not complete
Looking for two endorsers
F2F Agenda Topics Discussion
Discussion around possible presentation from Microsoft but Ian is looking for some idea of the main topics
Suggested there may be time to discuss signing services after the revocation and 3647 ballot but may need to wait for updates based other ballots
Suggested to discuss Timestamping changes
Suggested discussing removing text allowing for keys not stored in hw
Bruce suggested discussing high risk items, and Tim mentioned that in previous discussions post June the plan was to remove high risk language, Bruce agreed.
Bruce suggested potentially a clean-up ballot
Ben suggested discussion around some of the proposed changes in the CSBRs and will think about specific topics for discussion
Some side discussion between Bruce and Ian about the future of EV certificates, potential topic for MS to present on and/or have on the agenda at the F2F
Ian suggested discussing certificate transparency for code signing certificates were there was discussion amongst the attendees that it was a good topic to add
In summary; timestamping changes, high risk language, potentially some specific CSBR github discussion threads, EV/OV certificates, certificate transparency
Other business
Discussed request for new interested party participant from Hydraulic Software, Dean will connect with Wayne to accomplish.
Next Meeting: May 18th 2023
Adjourn

Latest releases

Server Certificate Requirements
BRs/2.1.2 SC-080 V3: Sunset the use of WHOIS to identify Domain Contacts and relying DCV Methods - Dec 16, 2024

Ballot SC-080 V3: “Sunset the use of WHOIS to identify Domain Contact… (https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/pull/560) Ballot SC-080 V3: “Sunset the use of WHOIS to identify Domain Contacts and relying DCV Methods” (https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/pull/555)

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
v1.0.8 - Ballot SMC010 - Dec 23, 2024

This ballot adopts Multi-Perspective Issuance Corroboration (MPIC) for CAs when conducting Email Domain Control Validation (DCV) and Certification Authority Authorization (CAA) checks for S/MIME Certificates. The Ballot adopts the MPIC implementation consistent with the TLS Baseline Requirements. Acknowledging that some S/MIME CAs with no TLS operations may require additional time to deploy MPIC, the Ballot has a Compliance Date of May 15, 2025. Following that date the implementation timeline described in TLS BR section 3.2.2.9 applies. This ballot is proposed by Stephen Davidson (DigiCert) and endorsed by Ashish Dhiman (GlobalSign) and Nicolas Lidzborski (Google).

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

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