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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 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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