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2025-01-09 Minutes of the Code Signing Certificate Working Group

Attendees

Brianca Martin - (Amazon), Brian Winters - (IdenTrust), Bruce Morton - (Entrust), Corey Bonnell - (DigiCert), Dean Coclin - (DigiCert), Inaba Atsushi - (GlobalSign), Iñigo Barreira - (Sectigo), Kateryna Aleksieieva - (Asseco Data Systems SA (Certum)), Luis Cervantes - (SSL.com), Marco Schambach - (IdenTrust), Martijn Katerbarg - (Sectigo), Nome Huang - (TrustAsia), Rebecca Kelly - (SSL.com), Roberto Quionones - (Intel), Scott Rea - (eMudhra), Thomas Zermeno - (SSL.com), Tim Crawford - (CPA Canada/WebTrust), Trevoli Ponds-White - (Amazon)

Note Well

Martijn read the Note Well,

Approval of prior meeting minutes

The December 12, 2024 minutes were approved.

Max validity of CS certs

Ian was not on the call. Martijn will reach out to Ian.

Dean advise that there have been some questions on the ballot. A concern is that some Subscribers are using tokens and shorter validity periods may be an issue. An alternative would be for Subscribers to use a signing service.

During the meeting, Ian sent an email. Ian will have a proposal before 1 February 2025. Nate will transition in February.

Aligning CSCWG BRs with recent SCWG ballots

A proposal has been created in Github incorporating 5 Server Working Group ballots. Am now looking for two endorsers. Martijn stated he would endorse.

Bruce stated that the effectivity date stated is 15 June 2025, this can change if this is an issue. Regarding pre-sign linting, this was included as a SHOULD, since there are no linters which cover the CSBRs.

Other business

Bruce suggested that we should consider a clean-up ballot. This would make a correction from another ballot, plus remove some past effective dates. This would be a new ballot.

Martijn stated we will need to start working on one certificate type this year.

Next Meeting

January 23, 2025

Latest releases
Server Certificate Requirements
SC095v3: Clean-up 2025 - Apr 2, 2026

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
v1.0.13 - Ballot SMC015v2 - Mar 28, 2026

This ballot introduces requirements that a CA or RA must follow to rely upon a Mobile Drivers License (mDL) to provide evidence for the authentication of individual identity. It allows the use of mDL that conform to ISO/IEC 18013-5 and which may be verified by the CA or RA in conformance with ISO/IEC 18013-7. The CA or RA shall only accept mDL from an Issuing Authority that is legally authorized by the relevant government or jurisdiction to issue driving licenses. The draft also aligns the subsections of 3.2.4.2 (Validation of individual identity) to correspond more closely with those in 3.2.4.1 (Attribute collection of individual identity). It also includes minor editorial corrections. SMC015v2 was updated to remove an additional reference to the superceded ETSI EN 319 403. This ballot is proposed by Stephen Davidson (DigiCert) and endorsed by Ben Wilson (Mozilla) and Scott Rea (eMudhra).

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

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