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The Certification Authority Browser Forum (CA/Browser Forum) is a voluntary gathering of Certificate Issuers and suppliers of Internet browser software and other applications that use certificates (Certificate Consumers).

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Ballot SC-82: Clarify CA Assisted DNS Validation under 3.2.2.4.7
November 29, 2024 by Dimitris Zacharopoulos
Ballot Server Certificates
Voting Results The voting period for Ballot SC82: Clarify CA Assisted DNS Validation under 3.2.2.4.7 has completed. The ballot has: FAILED
2024-11-20 Minutes of the S/MIME Certificate Working Group
November 20, 2024 by Stephen Davidson
Minutes S/MIME
Minutes of SMCWG November 20, 2024 These are the Minutes of the meeting described in the subject of this message. Corrections and clarifications where needed are encouraged by reply.
2024-11-14 Minutes of the Code Signing Certificate Working Group
November 14, 2024 by Martijn Katerbarg
Code Signing Minutes
Attendees Atsushi Inaba (GlobalSign); Brian Winters (IdenTrust); Corey Bonnell (DigiCert); Dean Coclin (DigiCert); Inigo Barreira (Sectigo); Luis Cervantes (SSL.com); Marco Schambach (IdenTrust); Martijn Katerbarg (Sectigo); Nome-Huang (TrustAsia); Rebecca Kelley (SSL.com); Roberto Quiñones (Intel); Thomas Zermeno (SSL.com); Yateesh Bhardwaj (Globalsign)
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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
v1.0.7 - Ballot SMC09 - Nov 25, 2024

This ballot includes updates for the following: • Require pre-linting of leaf end entity Certificates starting September 15, 2025 • Require WebTrust for Network Security for audits starting after April 1, 2025 • Clarify that multiple certificatePolicy OIDs are allowed in end entity certificates • Clarify use of organizationIdentifer references • Update of Appendix A.2 Natural Person Identifiers This ballot is proposed by Stephen Davidson (DigiCert) and endorsed by Clint Wilson (Apple) and Martijn Katerbarg (Sectigo).

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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The Certification Authority Browser Forum (CA/Browser Forum) is a voluntary gathering of Certificate Issuers and suppliers of Internet browser software and other applications that use certificates (Certificate Consumers).