2023-06-29 Minutes of the Code Signing Certificate Working Group
Attendees
Andrea Holland (VikingCloud), Atsushi INABA (GlobalSign), Ben Dewberry (Keyfactor), Bhat Abhishek (eMudhra), Brianca Martin (Amazon), Bruce Morton (Entrust), Corey Bonnell (DigiCert), Dean Coclin (DigiCert), Janet Hines (VikingCloud), Keshava N (eMudhra), Martijn Katerbarg (Sectigo), Mohit Kumar (GlobalSign), Roberto Quiñones (Intel), Scott Rea (eMudhra), Tim Crawford (BDO/WebTrust), Tim Hollebeek (DigiCert)
Minutes
**Antitrust statement: **The Antitrust statement was read.
Approval of minutes: Previous F2F meeting’s minutes still being compiled
Ballot: CSC 18 has passed and IPR review period is over
- No claims received
Look into rebasing the last two Ballots into Dimitri’s branch
- Now that the IPR period is over that can be done
Signing service Ballot
- Most of the text is written but could now be out of Sync with updates coming in from Dimitri’s ballot
- Need to recut the ballot after going through the previous ballot
- Most of the text is written but could now be out of Sync with updates coming in from Dimitri’s ballot
High risk language change proposal (Bruce, Tim, and Ian)
- Work on getting (High risk language, time stamping change, EB certificates, certificate transparency) discussion in a prioritized order
- All items that have been talked about but nobody is working on a specific one
- High risk can be done now, other two waiting on more fleshed out text
- Certificate Transparency
- Work on getting (High risk language, time stamping change, EB certificates, certificate transparency) discussion in a prioritized order
- Presentation on Certificate Transparency Coming up at an upcoming code signing meeting
- Time Stamping change
- Setting a requirement for time stamping, also impacts non code signing items
- Time stamping authorities for code signing intermixed with time stamping authorities for other things and causes a number of problems but no need for it to necessarily continue
- Potential next steps
- Designate which timestamp servers are meant to be a codesigning according to the CAB forum code signing requirements
- Prioritization discussions to come when Ian joins next
Next Call: July 13th
Adjourn