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2024-05-16 Minutes of the Code Signing Certificate Working Group

Attendees

Atsushi INABA - GlobalSign, Ben Dewberry -Keyfactor, Brian Winters - IdenTrust, Brianca Martin - Amazon, Bruce Morton - Entrust, Corey Bonnell-Digicert, Dean Coclin-DigiCert, Dimitris Zacharopoulos - HARICA, Martijn Katerbarg - Sectigo, Mohit Kumar - GlobalSign, Richard Kisley (Guest), Scott Rea - eMudhra

Minutes

Antitrust statement was read.
Meeting Minutes of 2nd-May-24 approved.

Following Ballots were discussed.

Removing EV Guidelines References: Dimitris removed the Organization Identifier requirements from the updates that had objection from the group. There was alignment on using EV Codesigning certificates vs EV Certificates. Updates to be made by Dimitris. Ballot Process can be started if no further comments and looks right.
CSC - 23: It was not received publicly so it has not been published. Corey mentioned it is required step. Bruce will send it to Public list so Corey can take from there for publication.
CSC-24: Time-stamp Requirements update No further comments from anyone. Voting will be started.

Proposal for PCI-HSM acceptance for CA HSMs evaluation by R.Kisley was discussed

Kisley mentioned that:-

PCI has high level assurance requirements
FIPS program has long queue so good to have other option
PCI Version 4 is proposed as PCI version 3 is going to expire in 2026

So request is to add PCI HSM as an alternative criteria to FIPS. Bruce mentioned that need to understand if it will be accepted by Root programs. Dimitris mentioned that Certification of standard is also important. Richard Kisley to reach out to Microsoft/raise this in F2F.

F2F Agenda was discussed and following topics identified for discussion:

Maximum Certificate Validity period for Codesigning certificates
EV Codesigning changes by Microsoft, dependent usecases on EV and future direction
Problem of change in Subject DN for publishers impacting continuity of upgrades and Use of Subject Organization specific EKU
CT Logging
Need for Organization Identifier for Codesigning certificates Dean to share the list ahead to Ian.

Membership of Encryption Consulting, okay to join as interested party.

No objections raised

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