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2024-08-08 Minutes of the Code Signing Certificate Working Group

Attendees

Dean Coclin(DigiCert), Corey Bonnell (DigiCert), Inigo Barreira (Sectigo), Thomas Zermeno (SSL.com), Brianca Martin (Amazon), Martijn Katerbarg (Sectigo), Rebecca Kelley (SSL.com), Bruce Morton (Entrust), Trevoli Ponds-White (Amazon), Mohit Kumar (Globalsign), Tim Hollebeek (DigiCert), Scott Rea (eMudhra), Brian Winters (Identrust), Atsushi Inaba (Globalsign)

Minutes

  1. Antitrust reminder was read.
  2. Prior meeting minutes approved: July 11, July 25th. The June 27th minutes are pending approval for the next call.
  3. IPR review is completed for CSC-25.
  4. IPR review is completed for CSC-26.
  5. Ian was not on the call, so the validity period topic was not discussed. Brianca suggested that the unit of measure be “days” instead of “months”. This will be conveyed to Ian.
  6. SKI requirements question from Viktor Varga: This was acknowledged as an omission and will be added to a future clean-up ballot.
  7. Simplifying EV: Tim was not prepared to discuss today and suggested we postpone until Ian returns.
  8. Fall elections will be conducted at the Forum level. Chair nominations are open.
  9. No other business.
  10. Next meeting Aug 22nd. Dean will be away so Bruce will chair the call.
  11. Adjourn
Latest releases
Code Signing Requirements
v3.8 - Aug 5, 2024

What’s Changed

Full Changelog: https://github.com/cabforum/code-signing/compare/v3.7...v3.8

S/MIME Requirements
v1.0.6 - Ballot SMC08 - Aug 29, 2024

This ballot sets a date by which issuance of certificates following the Legacy generation profiles must cease. It also includes the following minor updates:

  • Pins the domain validation procedures to v 2.0.5 of the TLS Baseline Requirements while the ballot activity for multi-perspective validation is concluded, and the SMCWG determines its corresponding course of action;
  • Updates the reference for SmtpUTF8Mailbox from RFC 8398 to RFC 9598; and
  • Small text corrections in the Reference section

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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