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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
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
v1.0.7 - Ballot SMC09 - Nov 25, 2024

This ballot includes updates for the following: • Require pre-linting of leaf end entity Certificates starting September 15, 2025 • Require WebTrust for Network Security for audits starting after April 1, 2025 • Clarify that multiple certificatePolicy OIDs are allowed in end entity certificates • Clarify use of organizationIdentifer references • Update of Appendix A.2 Natural Person Identifiers This ballot is proposed by Stephen Davidson (DigiCert) and endorsed by Clint Wilson (Apple) and Martijn Katerbarg (Sectigo).

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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