Ballots CSC-26
RESULTS OF REVIEW PERIOD
CSC-26
Ballot CSC 26: Timestamping Private Key Protection Ballot
The Intellectual Property Review (IPR) period for Ballot CSC26: Timestamping Private Key Protection Ballot has completed. No IPR Exclusion Notices were filed, and the ballot is adopted as of Aug 1, 2024.
The new Code Signing BRs will be published to the CABF public website in accordance with the Bylaws.
CSC-26
Results of Voting
| Yes | No | Abstain | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Certificate Issuers | Certum, DigiCert, eMudhra, Entrust, GlobalSign, IdenTrust, Sectigo, SSL.com | ||
| Certificate Consumers | Microsoft |
Purpose of the Ballot
This ballot updates the “Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly‐Trusted Code Signing Certificates“ version 3.7 in order to clarify language regarding Timestamp Authority Private Key Protection. The main goals of this ballot are to:
- Require Timestamp Authority Subordinate CA Private Keys to be stored in offline HSMs
- Add a requirement to remove Private Keys associated with Timestamp Certificates after a 18 months
- Add a requirement to reject SHA-1 timestamp requests
The following motion has been proposed by Martijn Katerbarg of Sectigo and endorsed by Bruce Morton of Entrust and Ian McMillan of Microsoft.
Motion
This ballot updates the “Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly‐Trusted Code Signing Certificates” (“Code Signing Baseline Requirements”) based on version 3.7. MODIFY the Code Signing Baseline Requirements as specified in the following redline: https://github.com/cabforum/code-signing/compare/d431d9104094f2b89f35ed4bf1d64b9a844e762b...12130ff7c2b41d795d47925c084780ea0f7328cd