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2025-11-13 Minutes of the Code Signing Certificate Working Group

Certificate Signing Certificate Working Group (CSCWG) – Meeting Minutes

Date: November 13, 2025

Note Well

Inigo read the Note Well

Review of Agenda

Agenda accepted

Approval of minutes

September 4th October 2nd October 30th All minutes were approved.

Interested Party application

Digitorus Inigo asked for comments/concerns about Digitorus. Dean mentioned that Paul sent it the application to joing all WGs and then is up to every WG decide. None rejected. Digitorus accepted.

Discussion Topics

SC-Alignment ballot - Update regarding concerns from Microsoft on OCSP None from MS was in the call. Item deferred Future schedule of Teleconference None disagrees with a monthly call. Migration to Single Profile: Replace JOI with orgIdentifier None commented about this.

Any Other Business

Dean asked when it´s planned to start with the monthly call considering that the next CSCWG call is thanksgiving in the US Inigo: well, then it´s a good opportunity to start today with the monthly cadence, so no need to skip the 2 weeks call during thanksgiving Dean: ok, great, so next one will be in December, 11th.

Adjourned

Attendees

Brianca Martin (Amazon), Brian Winters (IdenTrust), Corey Bonnell (DigiCert), Dean Coclin (DigiCert), Inaba Atsushi (GlobalSign), Iñigo Barreira (Sectigo), Kateryna Aleksieieva (Asseco Data Systems SA (Certum)), Marco Schambach (IdenTrust), Martijn Katerbarg (Sectigo), Nome Huang (TrustAsia), Rebecca Kelly (SSL.com), Scott Rea (eMudhra), Tim Crawford (CPA Canada/WebTrust)

Latest releases

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SC094: Add partial exception for DNSSEC checks for email DCV methods - Feb 17, 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

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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).

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