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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-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.
2024-11-06 Minutes of the S/MIME Certificate Working Group
November 6, 2024 by Stephen Davidson
Minutes S/MIME
Minutes of SMCWG November 6, 2024 These are the Minutes of the meeting described in the subject of this message. Corrections and clarifications where needed are encouraged by reply.
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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
v1.0.6 - 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).