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Ballot CSC-23 - Marking the EV Code Signing Guidelines SUPERCEDED

The final documents, with the effective date being 2024-03-26, are available here.

Results of Voting

YesNoAbstain
Certificate IssuersActalis, Asseco (Certum), DigiCert, Entrust, Globalsign, HARICA, IdenTrust, Sectigo, SSL.com
Certificate ConsumersMicrosoft

Purpose of the Ballot

As agreed at the F2F#61 meeting, this is a ballot to mark the “Guidelines For The Issuance And Management Of Extended Validation Code Signing Certificates” as superceded.

The following motion has been proposed by Dimitris Zacharopoulos of HARICA and endorsed by Scott Rea of eMudhra and Martijn Katerbarg of Sectigo.

Motion

Update the EVCS Guidelines v1.4 to version 1.5 with the following changes: In the “Notice to Readers” section, update the second paragraph to state:

“The Code Signing Working Group considers this document SUPERCEDED as of September 2, 2020. CAs SHOULD NOT use this standard but instead SHOULD use the “Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly‐Trusted Code Signing Certificates” that has incorporated and improved requirements related to Extended Validation (EV) Code Signing Certificates.”

Update section 17.1 to state the following:

“As this document is marked SUPERCEDED, CAs SHOULD NOT be audited against this standard. "

Latest releases
Code Signing Requirements
v3.8 - Aug 5, 2024

What’s Changed

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

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