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Recent posts

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

Ballot SC-80v3: Sunset the use of WHOIS to identify Domain Contacts and relying DCV Methods
November 14, 2024 by Iñigo Barreira

Ballot Server Certificates

Voting Results Certificate Issuers 24 votes in total:

Ballot SMC010 - Introduction of Multi-Perspective Issuance Corroboration
November 7, 2024 by Stephen Davidson

Ballot S/MIME

IPR Review of Ballot SMC010: Introduction of Multi-Perspective Issuance Corroboration This Review Notice is sent pursuant to Section 4.1 of the CA/Browser Forum’s Intellectual Property Rights Policy (v1.3). This Review Period of 30 days is for one Final Maintenance Guidelines. The complete Draft Maintenance Guideline that is the subject of this Review Notice in red-line is at https://cabforum.org/2024/11/07/ballot-smc010-introduction-of-multi-perspective-issuance-corroboration/CA-Browser-Forum-SMIMEBR-1.0.8-Redline.pdf.

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Latest releases

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