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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
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

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