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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 SMC09 Pre-Linting, WebTrust for NetSec, and Minor Updates
October 9, 2024 by Stephen DavidsonBallot SMC09: Pre-Linting, WebTrust for NetSec, and Minor Updates Summary: 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 WebTrust 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).
Ballot SC-78: Subject organizationName alignment for DBA / Assumed Name
October 2, 2024 by Iñigo BarreiraVoting Results Certificate Issuers 20 votes total, with no abstentions: 20 Issuers voting YES: Asseco, Buypass, Disig, D-Trust, eMudhra, Entrust, GlobalSign, GoDaddy, HARICA, IdenTrust, Izenpe, JPRS, OISTE, SECOM, Sectigo, SwissSign, Telia, TrustAsia, TWCA, VikingCloud 0 Issuers voting NO 0 Issuers ABSTAIN Certificate Consumers 2 votes total, with no abstentions: 2 Consumers voting YES: Apple, Mozilla 0 Consumers voting NO 0 Consumers ABSTAIN Bylaws Requirements Bylaw 2.3(6) requires: In order for a ballot to be adopted by the Forum, two‐thirds (2/3) or more of the votes cast by the Voting Members in the Certificate Issuer category must be in favour of the ballot.
2024-09-11 Minutes of the S/MIME Certificate Working Group
September 11, 2024 by Stephen DavidsonMinutes of SMCWG September 11, 2024 These are the Minutes of the meeting described in the subject of this message. Corrections and clarifications where needed are encouraged by reply. Attendees Adrian Mueller (SwissSign), Andrea Holland (VikingCloud), Andreas Henschel (D-TRUST), Andy Warner (Google), Ashish Dhiman (GlobalSign), Guillaume Amringer (Carillon Information Security Inc.), Inaba Atsushi (GlobalSign), Iñigo Barreira (Sectigo), Judith Spencer (CertiPath), Li-Chun Chen (Chunghwa Telecom), Malcolm Idaho (IdenTrust), Marco Schambach (IdenTrust), Martijn Katerbarg (Sectigo), Morad Abou Nasser (TeleTrust), Nome Huang (TrustAsia), Paul van Brouwershaven (Entrust), Pedro Fuentes (OISTE Foundation), Renne Rodriguez (Apple), Rollin Yu (TrustAsia), Stephen Davidson (DigiCert), Thomas Zermeno (SSL.
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Latest releases
Code Signing Requirements
v3.8 - Aug 5, 2024

What’s Changed

Full Changelog: https://github.com/cabforum/code-signing/compare/v3.7...v3.8

S/MIME Requirements
v1.0.6 - Ballot SMC08 - Aug 29, 2024

This ballot sets a date by which issuance of certificates following the Legacy generation profiles must cease. It also includes the following minor updates:

  • Pins the domain validation procedures to v 2.0.5 of the TLS Baseline Requirements while the ballot activity for multi-perspective validation is concluded, and the SMCWG determines its corresponding course of action;
  • Updates the reference for SmtpUTF8Mailbox from RFC 8398 to RFC 9598; and
  • Small text corrections in the Reference section

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).