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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
Server Certificate Requirements
SC-081v3: Introduce Schedule of Reducing Validity and Data Reuse Periods - May 21, 2025

BR v2.1.5

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
v1.0.10 - Ballot SMC012 - Jul 2, 2025

Introduces a new method for validation of mailbox control, using ACME for S/MIME as defined in RFC 8823: Extensions to Automatic Certificate Management Environment for End-User S/MIME Certificates.

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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