Ballot SC-73: Compromised and weak keys
Voting Results
Certificate Issuers
23 votes total, with no abstentions:
- 23 Issuers voting YES: Actalis, Certum (Asseco), CFCA, CommScope, D-TRUST, Disig, Entrust, Fastly, GDCA, GlobalSign, GoDaddy, HARICA, iTrusChina, JPRS, Let’s Encrypt / ISRG, SECOM, Sectigo, SSL.com, SwissSign, Telia Company, TrustAsia, TWCA, VikingCloud
- 0 Issuers voting NO
- 0 Issuers ABSTAIN
Certificate Consumers
1 votes total, with no abstentions:
- 1 Consumers voting YES: Mozilla
- 0 Consumers voting NO
- 0 Consumers ABSTAIN
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Notice of Review Period
This Review Notice is sent pursuant to Section 4.1 of the CA/Browser Forum’s Intellectual Property Rights Policy (v1.3). This Review Period of 30 days is for one Final Maintenance Guidelines. The complete Draft Maintenance Guideline that is the subject of this Review Notice is attached to this email, both in red-line and changes-accepted draft format, in Word and PDF versions.
Summary of Review
Ballot for Review: Ballot SC-73: Compromised and weak keys
Start of Review Period: 6 May 2024 at 10:00 UTC
End of Review Period: 6 June 2024 at 10:00 UTC
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Ballot Contents
Purpose of the Ballot
This ballot proposes updates to the Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted TLS Server Certificates related to weak and compromised private keys. These changes lie primarily in Section 6.1.1.3: • 6.1.1.3(4) clarifies that, for the purpose of this requirement, CAs shall be made aware of compromised keys using their existing notification mechanism(s). • 6.1.1.3(5) improves guidance for CAs around the detection of weak keys. Should this ballot pass, these changes become effective on November 15, 2024. Notes: • This ballot builds on the extensive work done by SSL.com in creating ballot SC-59v2 Weak Key Guidance. SSL.com’s contributions are appreciated. • Thanks to Rob Stradling of Sectigo for the generation and publication of the set of Debian weak keys referenced in this ballot. • The Debian weak keys requirements have been discussed extensively, including in the following threads: https://lists.cabforum.org/pipermail/servercert-wg/2024-March/004291.html and https://lists.cabforum.org/pipermail/servercert-wg/2024-April/004422.html • This ballot does not appear to conflict with any other ballots that are currently under discussion.
The following motion has been proposed by Wayne Thayer of Fastly, and endorsed by Brittany Randall of GoDaddy and Bruce Morton of Entrust.
Motion begins
This ballot modifies the “Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted Certificates” (“Baseline Requirements”), based on Version 2.0.3.
MODIFY the Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted TLS Server Certificates as specified in the following Redline: Here is a link to the immutable GitHub redline: https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/a65402cff89affe1fc0a1f0e49807c7e42e1608a...bee10c8e4a56815bffd59fab12cbd4044baa7cc0
Motion ends
This ballot proposes a Final Maintenance Guideline. The procedure for approval of this ballot is as follows:
Discussion (7+ days)
• Start time: 2024-04-18 00:00:00 UTC
• End time: 2024-04-26 00:00:00 UTC
Vote for approval (7 days)
• Start time: 2024-04-26 00:00:00 UTC
• End time: 2024-05-03 00:00:00 UTC