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2024-08-14 Minutes of the S/MIME Certificate Working Group
August 14, 2024 by Stephen DavidsonMinutes of SMCWG August 14, 2024 These are the Approved Minutes of the meeting described in the subject of this message. Corrections and clarifications where needed are encouraged by reply. Attendees Adrian Mueller - (SwissSign), Andreas Henschel - (D-TRUST), Ashish Dhiman - (GlobalSign), Clint Wilson - (Apple), Daryn Wright - (Apple), Enrico Entschew - (D-TRUST), Inaba Atsushi - (GlobalSign), Judith Spencer - (CertiPath), Malcolm Idaho - (IdenTrust), Marco Schambach - (IdenTrust), Martijn Katerbarg - (Sectigo), Mrugesh Chandarana - (IdenTrust), Nome Huang - (TrustAsia), Paul van Brouwershaven - (Entrust), Pekka Lahtiharju - (Telia Company), Renne Rodriguez - (Apple), Rollin Yu - (TrustAsia), Sandy Balzer - (SwissSign), Scott Rea - (eMudhra), Stephen Davidson - (DigiCert), Tathan Thacker - (IdenTrust), Thomas Zermeno - (SSL.
2024-08-08 Minutes of the Code Signing Certificate Working Group
August 8, 2024 by Corey BonnellAttendees Dean Coclin(DigiCert), Corey Bonnell (DigiCert), Inigo Barreira (Sectigo), Thomas Zermeno (SSL.com), Brianca Martin (Amazon), Martijn Katerbarg (Sectigo), Rebecca Kelley (SSL.com), Bruce Morton (Entrust), Trevoli Ponds-White (Amazon), Mohit Kumar (Globalsign), Tim Hollebeek (DigiCert), Scott Rea (eMudhra), Brian Winters (Identrust), Atsushi Inaba (Globalsign) Minutes Antitrust reminder was read. Prior meeting minutes approved: July 11, July 25th. The June 27th minutes are pending approval for the next call. IPR review is completed for CSC-25.
Ballot SC-67 v3: Require domain validation and CAA checks to be performed from multiple Network Perspectives Corroboration
August 5, 2024 by IƱigo BarreiraVoting Results Certificate Issuers 22 votes total, with no abstentions: 22 Issuers voting YES: Actalis, Buypass, Certum (Asseco), Chunghwa Telecom, D-TRUST, DigiCert, Disig, eMudhra, Entrust, Fastly, GlobalSign, HARICA, IdenTrust, Izenpe, JPRS, Let’s Encrypt / ISRG, OISTE, SECOM, Sectigo, SSL.com, Telia Company, TrustAsia 0 Issuers voting NO 0 Issuers ABSTAIN Certificate Consumers 4 votes total, with no abstentions: 3 Consumers voting YES: Apple, Google, Mozilla, Opera 0 Consumers voting NO 0 Consumers ABSTAIN Bylaws Requirements Bylaw 2.
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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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