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2024-10-31 Minutes of the Code Signing Certificate Working Group

Attendees

Brianca Martin (Amazon), Brian Winters (IdenTrust), Bruce Morton (Entrust), Corey Bonnell (DigiCert), Dean Coclin (DigiCert), Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA), Ian McMillan (Microsoft), Inaba Atsushi (GlobalSign), Iñigo Barreira (Sectigo), Luis Cervantes (SSL.com), Marco Schambach (IdenTrust), Martijn Katerbarg (Sectigo), Mohit Kumar (GlobalSign), Nome Huang (TrustAsia), Rebecca Kelly (SSL.com), Roberto Quionones (Intel), Rollin Yu (TrustAsia), Scott Rea (eMudhra), Thomas Zermeno (SSL.com), Tim Crawford (CPA Canada/WebTrust)

Minutes

Note Well

Dean read the note well.

Approve prior meeting minutes – Sept 5th (Brianca), Sept 19th (Marco), F2F minutes (Katerina)

F2F Minutes -> Recently circulated. To be approved at the next meeting
September 19th -> Approved
September 5th -> Bruce confirmed these were already approved and posted to the website

Interested Party application: Kenyon Abbott

No concern. Approved.

Max validity of CS certs (Ian) – proposal

Ian sent out a proposal to the list to shorten validity down to 460 days, rather than xx months to keep it clear. Effective date proposed for May 30th. A short discussion was had if we can move this to the middle of the month. Ian will update the proposal effective date to June 15th. Ian will circulate a ballot text. Bruce and Dean offered to endorse the ballot pending review of the final text.

Fall elections: Vice Chair nomination (Tom Zermeno)

Voting period in progress at the moment. Voting looks good right now.

Other business

Bruce – We still need to review ballots from other working groups. We should make sure we don’t fall out of sync too much. Bruce offered to send out an email with all ballots that have passed so we can review.

Next meeting – November 14th

Proposed to cancel the November 28th meeting as it is a public holiday in the US.

Latest releases

Server Certificate Requirements
BRs/2.1.2 SC-080 V3: Sunset the use of WHOIS to identify Domain Contacts and relying DCV Methods - Dec 16, 2024

Ballot SC-080 V3: “Sunset the use of WHOIS to identify Domain Contact… (https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/pull/560) Ballot SC-080 V3: “Sunset the use of WHOIS to identify Domain Contacts and relying DCV Methods” (https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/pull/555)

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
v1.0.8 - Ballot SMC010 - Dec 23, 2024

This ballot adopts Multi-Perspective Issuance Corroboration (MPIC) for CAs when conducting Email Domain Control Validation (DCV) and Certification Authority Authorization (CAA) checks for S/MIME Certificates. The Ballot adopts the MPIC implementation consistent with the TLS Baseline Requirements. Acknowledging that some S/MIME CAs with no TLS operations may require additional time to deploy MPIC, the Ballot has a Compliance Date of May 15, 2025. Following that date the implementation timeline described in TLS BR section 3.2.2.9 applies. This ballot is proposed by Stephen Davidson (DigiCert) and endorsed by Ashish Dhiman (GlobalSign) and Nicolas Lidzborski (Google).

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