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2024-07-11 Minutes of the Code Signing Certificate Working Group

Attendees

Atsushi INABA - GlobalSign, Brian Winters - IdenTrust, Bruce Morton - Entrust, Corey Bonnell -DigiCert, Dean Coclin-DigiCert (checked in to start meeting call), Ian McMillan Microsoft, Inigo Barreira - Sectigo, Rebecca Kelley - SSL.com, Scott Rea - eMudhra, Thomas Zermeno - SSL.com, Tim Crawford - BDO, Wangmo Tenzing

Minutes

  1. Roll Call
    • Completed by Bruce
  2. Antitrust reminder
    • Completed by Bruce
  3. Approve prior meeting minutes – June 13th and June 27th (Brianca)
    • Minutes are not available for review and approval
    • Pushed to next meeting
  4. IPR review: CSC-25 Remove EV Guideline References (Dimitris)
    • Ballot has passed and IPR period set to complete on August 1, 2024
  5. IPR review: CSC-26 Time-stamp Requirements update (Martijn)
    • Ballot has passed and IPR period set to complete on August 1, 2024
  6. Simplifying EV (Tim)
    • Tim was not available on the call (pushing to next meeting)
    • No progress has been made currently, but CSC-25 completion will simplify this effort
  7. Other business
    • Ian volunteered to provide draft language for reducing the signing certificate max validity from 39 months to 15 months as previously discussed by the group
    • Draft to be shared in next meeting
    • No other business
  8. Next meeting – July 25th
  9. Adjourn
Latest releases
Server Certificate Requirements
SC-089: Mass Revocation Planning - Aug 26, 2025

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
v1.0.12 - Ballot SMC014 - Oct 13, 2025

This ballot introduces requirements that a Certificate Issuer MUST deploy DNSSEC validation back to the IANA DNSSEC root trust anchor on all DNS queries associated with CAA record lookups performed by the Primary Network Perspective, effective March 15, 2026. The ballot is intended to maintain consistency in the S/MIME Baseline Requirements with the requirements of Ballot SC-085 which implemented identical requirements in the TLS Baseline Requirements. Note: SC-085 also introduced requirements in TLS Baseline Requirements for the use of DNSSEC in domain control validation. These requirements are automatically adopted in the S/MIME BR by the email domain control methods that include a normative reference to section 3.2.2.4 of the TLS Baseline Requirements. The draft also includes minor corrections to web links in the text. This ballot is proposed by Stephen Davidson (DigiCert) and endorsed by Client Wilson (Apple) and Ashish Dhiman (GlobalSign).

Network and Certificate System Security Requirements
Version 2.0.5 (Ballot NS-008) - Jul 9, 2025

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