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May 29, 2014

The U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and technology (NIST) has released for public comment its second draft Reference Certificate Policy for Publicly Trusted Certification Authorities (NISTIR 7924).

** April 11, 2011**

CA / Browser Forum announces release and availability of Public Comment Draft of “Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted Certificates” – Announcement-Baseline_Requirements

March 2011

CA / Browser Forum announces support of Electronic Frontier Foundation’s SSL Observatory – EFF_SSL_Observatory

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