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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-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.
Ballot SC-77: Update WebTrust Audit name in Section 8.4 and References
September 2, 2024 by Iñigo BarreiraVoting Results Certificate Issuers 22 votes total, with no abstentions: 22 Issuers voting YES: Amazon, Buypass, Chunghwa Telecom, CommScope, DigiCert, eMudhra, Entrust, Fastly, GlobalSign, GoDaddy, HARICA, IdenTrust, iTrusChina, Izenpe, JPRS, OISTE, SECOM, Sectigo, SSL.com, TrustAsia, TWCA, VikingCloud 0 Issuers voting NO 0 Issuers ABSTAIN Certificate Consumers 3 votes total, with no abstentions: 3 Consumers voting YES: Apple, Google, Mozilla 0 Consumers voting NO 0 Consumers ABSTAIN Bylaws Requirements Bylaw 2.3(6) requires:
2024-08-29 Minutes of the Server Certificate Working Group
August 29, 2024 by Iñigo BarreiraAttendance Aaron Gable (Let’s Encrypt), Aaron Poulsen (Amazon), Adrian Mueller (SwissSign), Andrea Holland (VikingCloud), Antti Backman (Telia Company), Ben Wilson (Mozilla), Bineesh Ambali Vadakkekandi (Microsoft), Brianca Martin (Amazon), Bruce Morton (Entrust), Chad Dandar (Cisco Systems), Chris Clements (Google), Clint Wilson (Apple), Corey Bonnell (DigiCert), Corey Rasmussen (OATI), Daryn Wright (Apple), Dean Coclin (DigiCert), Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA), Doug Beattie (GlobalSign), Dustin Hollenback (Microsoft), Enrico Entschew (D-TRUST), Gregory Tomko (GlobalSign), Inaba Atsushi (GlobalSign), Iñigo Barreira (Sectigo), Jaime Hablutzel (OISTE Foundation), Ji Eun Seong (MOIS (Ministry of Interior and Safety) of the republic of Korea), Johnny Reading (GoDaddy), Jos Purvis (Fastly), Josselin Allemandou (Certigna (DHIMYOTIS)), Kiran Tummala (Microsoft), Li-Chun Chen (Chunghwa Telecom), Lucy Buecking (IdenTrust), Luis Cervantes (GoDaddy), Lynn Jeun (Visa), Mads Henriksveen (Buypass AS), Mahua Chaudhuri (Microsoft), Marco Schambach (IdenTrust), Michael Slaughter (Amazon), Michelle Coon (OATI), Mrugesh Chandarana (IdenTrust), Nargis Mannan (VikingCloud), Nate Smith (GoDaddy), Nicol So (CommScope), Nome Huang (TrustAsia), Paul van Brouwershaven (Entrust), Rebecca Kelly (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).