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Ballot SC62v2-Certificate profiles update
March 17, 2023 by Iñigo BarreiraVoting Results Certificate Issuers 30 votes total, with no abstentions:
2023-03-16 Minutes of CA/Browser Forum Teleconference
March 16, 2023 by Ben WilsonFinal Minutes of Teleconference March 16, 2023 Prepared by Tom Zermeno (SSL.com).
2023-03-15 Minutes of the S/MIME Certificate Working Group
March 15, 2023 by Stephen DavidsonMinutes of SMCWG March 15, 2023 These are the Approved Minutes of the Teleconference described in the subject of this message. Corrections and clarifications where needed are encouraged by reply.
2023-03-09 Minutes of the Code Signing Certificate Working Group
March 9, 2023 by Corey BonnellAttendeesAndrea Holland (SecureTrust), Atsushi Inaba (GlobalSign), Brianca Martin (Amazon), Bruce Morton (Entrust), Corey Bonnell (DigiCert), Dean Coclin (DigiCert), Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA), Ian McMillan (Microsoft), Inigo Barriera (Sectigo), Janet Hines (VikingCloud), Rollin Yu (TrustAsia), Tim Hollebeek (DigiCert), Tomas Gustavsson (Keyfactor) Minutes Assign Minute taker (start recording) Brianca is taking minutes Antitrust Statement Dean reminded all participants that they must comply with the CA/Browser Forum anti-trust policy, code of conduct, and intellectual property rights agreement. Please contact the chair with any comments or concerns about these policies. Meeting Minutes February 9th meeting minutes pending receipt from Trevoli Ponds (Amazon). Martijn took minutes at the F2F Meeting on February 28th. Agenda – Items discussed in the F2F meeting a. Ian provided an overview from Microsoft’s perspective. Subscribers (buy certs, sign code) and consumers (consume the code/application that is signed/application).
2023-02-16 Minutes of the Server Certificate Working Group
March 6, 2023 by Iñigo BarreiraMeeting of the Server Certificate Working Group** February 16, 2023 Attendees: Aaron Gable – (Let’s Encrypt), Aaron Poulsen – (Amazon), Adrian Mueller – (SwissSign), Andrea Holland – (SecureTrust), Ben Wilson – (Mozilla), Bruce Morton – (Entrust), Chad Ehlers – (IdenTrust), Chris Clements – (Google), Chris Kemmerer – (SSL.com), Clint Wilson – (Apple), Corey Bonnell – (DigiCert), Daryn Wright – (GoDaddy), David Kluge – (Google), Dimitris Zacharopoulos – (HARICA), Doug Beattie – (GlobalSign), Dustin Hollenback – (Microsoft), Ellie Lu – (TrustAsia Technologies, Inc.), Enrico Entschew – (D-TRUST), Fumi Yoneda – (Japan Registry Services), Inaba Atsushi – (GlobalSign), Inigo Barreira – (Sectigo), Janet Hines – (SecureTrust), Joanna Fox – (TrustCor Systems), Johnny Reading – (GoDaddy), Jos Purvis – (Fastly), Karina Sirota – (Microsoft), Kiran Tummala – (Microsoft), Lynn Jeun – (Visa), Mads Henriksveen – (Buypass AS), Martijn Katerbarg – (Sectigo), Michelle Coon – (OATI), Nargis Mannan – (SecureTrust), Paul van Brouwershaven – (Entrust), Pedro Fuentes – (OISTE Foundation), Peter Miskovic – (Disig), Rebecca Kelley – (Apple), Rollin Yu – (TrustAsia Technologies, Inc.), Roman Fischer – (SwissSign), Ryan Dickson – (Google), Stephen Davidson – (DigiCert), Steve Topletz – (Cisco Systems), Thomas Zermeno – (SSL.com), Tim Hollebeek – (DigiCert), Tobias Josefowitz – (Opera Software AS), Vijayakumar (Vijay) Manjunatha – (eMudhra), Wayne Thayer – (Fastly), Wendy Brown – (US Federal PKI Management Authority), Yoshiro Yoneya – (Japan Registry Services) Next Minute Taker: Chris Kemmerer after the face-to-face meeting. Review of Agenda: Inigo Barreira stated the agenda was published and there were no changes. Approval of Minutes: Approved from the last call on February 2, 2023. Validation Subcommittee update: Corey Bonnell stated the subcommittee discussed two topics at the last meeting. The first was planning for the face-to-face where they decided that they were going to use the hour and a half by splitting the time. In the first half they will discuss multi-perspective domain validation and mitigations against some of the attacks that we’ve seen. Corey thought it was a great idea proposed by Ryan Dickson to take advantage of the guest speakers’ knowledge that they’ll be sharing and seeing how we can apply it within the context of the subcommittee. The second topic will be a continuation of the discussion around applicant representatives and their roles and responsibilities throughout the certificate issuance process. They identified five top level certificate issuance flows or models and there was a call for volunteers to write up each issuance flow. The write ups would look at each flow and identify improvements to the requirements as needed to better accommodate the flows or discuss various security properties. As an administrative note the call next Thursday is canceled, keeping the tradition of canceling before the face-to-face. Inigo suggested discussing restructuring the calls or how the SCWG should manage the validation subcommittee. Corey recalls this conversation occurring in the context of the SCWG. Ballot Status: SC61v4 – Incorporation of Mozilla Revocation Reason Codes is now in the voting period. SC62 – Certificate profiles. Still in discussion period with no end date defined yet. SC59 – Revival of Debian Weak Keys Ballot. Chris Kemmerer stated while working on redline they discovered they need to satisfy some pretty cogent comments from one of their endorsers. They would like to have this as an item for discussion at the face-to-face meeting. SCXX – SLO/Response for CRL & OCSP Responses. Clint stated there is no change. SCXX – Make OCSP optional, require CRLs. Ryan stated this is staged behind the profiles ballot. If people are interested in providing feedback, it’s very welcome. If anyone is interested in becoming an endorser they can email Ryan. Any other business: Tim suggested the SCWG should discuss where we want the working group to go and what it should be working on. The SCWG is in a state where it doesn’t have any clear direction and that’s really dangerous. The SCWG is one of the most important working groups we have. We need to get everybody on the same page about what we think are the important problems in the ecosystem that the group should be addressing and get people to start working on proposals to address those items. It’s a little bit dangerous that we continue to kind of let it continue its current trajectory, where not a lot gets done and the requirements just kind of sit the way they are. Inigo agreed and said even minor changes in the titling of the documents would help as well as updating the EV Guidelines in accordance with RFC 3647. The validation subcommittee was originally created for validation and when there was no working group structure. He plans on sending a list of topics to be included. Inigo stated Dimitris sent an email to the management list regarding algorithms and suggested discussion at the SCWG. Dimitris sent the email already knowing there was a discussion in the S/MIME working group but he felt the email was geared towards TLS. From previous discussions he believes there was no intent of implementing the algorithms by the browsers. Regardless, we need an answer for the questions list. Indigo asked if there was a time limit to respond to the question list. Dimitris is not aware of a time limit. Ben will email Dean. Tim suggested the algorithms in question are a little bit more efficient, a little bit more trustworthy in the nature of how the curves were generated. There are a bunch of small advantages that some people find attractive. Until a browser adopts the algorithm there is a chicken and egg problem. It’s up to the browsers to decide if this is something that they want to support. Aaron Gable stated they continually get requests from applicants and subscribers asking why they don’t support these curves and the answer is always, “we can’t”. There are other questions about the level of HSM support for curves other than the ones they use, but they would love for browsers to support them. Tim stated HSM support is pretty good and that should not be a blocker. Next Meeting: March 16, 2023 **Meeting adjourned.
Ballot SC61v4 – New CRL Entries must have a Revocation Reason Code
March 2, 2023 by Iñigo BarreiraVoting Results Certificate Issuers 24 votes total, with no abstentions:
Minutes of the F2F 58 Meeting in Ottawa, Canada, 28 February – 1 March, 2023
March 2, 2023 by Ben WilsonTuesday, 28 February 2023 – CA/B Forum Meeting (Day 1)Attendees Aaron Gable (Let’s Encrypt), Aaron Poulsen (Amazon Trust Services), Adam Jones (Microsoft), Adrian Mueller (SwissSign), Aleksandra Kurosz (Asseco Data Systems S.A. (Certum)), Alison Titus (Entrust), Andrea Holland (VikingCloud), Andreas Henschel (D-TRUST), Aneta Wojtczak-Iwanicka (Microsoft), Anna-Marie Christian (CPA Canada), Arno Fiedler (D-TRUST), Arnold Essing (Telekom Security), Atsushi Inaba (GlobalSign), Ben Dewberry (Keyfactor), Ben Wilson (Mozilla), Brianca Martin (Amazon), Brittany Randall (GoDaddy), Bruce Morton (Entrust), Bruce Wei (TrustAsia Technologies, Inc.), Chad Edhlers (IdenTrust), Chris Bailey (Entrust), Chris Clements (Google), Chris Czajczyc (Deloitte), Chris Kemmerer (SSL.com), Christophe Bonjean (GlobalSign), Clemens Wanko (ACAB’c), Clint Wilson (Apple), Corey Bonnell (DigiCert), Corey Rasmussen (OATI), Daniel Jeffery (Fastly), Daryn Wright (GoDaddy), Dave Chin (CPA Canada), David Kluge (Google), Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA), Don Sheehy (WebTrust), Doug Beattie (GlobalSign), Dre Armeda (GoDaddy), Elaine Bronsther (Sectigo), Ellie Lu (TrustAsia Technologies, Inc.), Enrico Entschew (D-TRUST), Eva Vansteenberge (GlobalSign), Fumihiko Yoneda (Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd. (JPRS)), George Fergadis (HARICA), Georgy Sebastian (Amazon), Hazhar Ismail (MSC Trustgate Sdn Bhd), Henry Birge-Lee (Guest Speaker), Ian McMillan (Microsoft), Ilona Jones (Entrust), Inaba Atsushi (GlobalSign), Inigo Barreira (Sectigo), JP Hamilton (Cisco Systems), Jamie Mackey (US Federal PKI Management Authority), Janet Hines (VikingCloud), Jeremy Rowley (DigiCert), Joanna Fox (TrustCor Systems), John Sarapata (Google Trust Services), Jos Purvis (Fastly), Jozef Nigut (Disig), Karina Sirota Goodley (Microsoft), Kathleen Wilson (Mozilla), Leo Grove (SSL.com), Li-Chun Chen (Chunghwa Telecom), Lisa Marie Barlow (Entrust), Lynn Jeun (Visa), Mads Henriksveen (Buypass AS), Marcelo Silva (Visa), Marco Schambach (IdenTrust), Martijn Katerbarg (Sectigo), Matthias Wiedenhorst (ACAB Council), Michael Slaughter (Amazon), Michał Malinowski (Asseco Data Systems S.A. (Certum)), Michelle Coon (OATI), Nargis Mannan (VikingCloud), Nick France (Sectigo), Nikolaos Soumelidis (ACAB’c), Pankaj Chawla (eMudhra), Paul van Brouwershaven (Entrust), Pedro Fuentes (OISTE Foundation), Pekka Lahtiharju (Telia Company), Peter Miskovic (Disig), Prachi Jain (Fastly), RIch Smith (DigiCert), Raffaela Achermann (SwissSign), Rajesh Raman (eMudhra), Rebecca Kelley (Apple), Rob Stradling (Sectigo), Rollin Yu (TrustAsia Technologies, Inc.), Ryan Dickson (Google Chrome), Samantha Frank (Let’s Encrypt), Sissel Hoel (Buypass), Star Simmons (GoDaddy), Stefan Kirch (Telekom Security), Stephen Davidson (DigiCert), Steven Deitte (GoDaddy), Sven Rajala (Keyfactor), Tadahiko Ito (SECOM Trust Systems), Thomas Zermeno (SSL.com), Tim Callan (Sectigo), Tim Crawford (WebTrust), Tim Hollebeek (DigiCert), Tobias Josefowitz (Opera Software AS), Trevoli Ponds-White (Amazon), Tsung-Min Kuo (Chunghwa Telecom), Tsung-Min Kuo (Chunghwa Telecom), Vijayakumar (Vijay) Manjunatha (eMudhra), Wayne Thayer (Fastly), Wendy Brown (US Federal PKI Management Authority), Xiu Lei (GDCA), Yoshihiko Matsuo (Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd. (JPRS)), Yoshiro Yoneya (Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd. (JPRS)).
Minutes of the F2F 58 Meeting in Ottawa, Canada, 28 Feb-2 March 2023 – Validation SC (2 March)
March 2, 2023 by Iñigo BarreiraValidation SubcommitteeCorey noted that the Antitrust Statement had been read and that attendance had been taken. The minutes of the meeting of Feb. 9, 2023, were approved. Corey recapped the status of the work accomplished by the Validation Subcommittee. First, since the Fall 2022 face-to-face meeting, the most notable accomplishment has been progress on the certificate profiles ballot. We also restarted the discussion of including LEIs in certificates, and we continued work on a review of “Applicant” and “Applicant Representative” in the Baseline Requirements (BRs). During the read-through of the BRs, we identified other things to fix as well.
Minutes of the F2F 58 Meeting in Ottawa, Canada, 28 Feb-2 March 2023 – SCWG (2 March)
March 2, 2023 by Iñigo BarreiraMeeting of the Server Certificate Working GroupMarch 2, 2023 Attendees: Aaron Gable – (Let’s Encrypt), Aaron Poulsen – (Amazon), Adam Jones – (Microsoft), Adrian Mueller – (SwissSign), Andrea Holland – (VikingCloud), Andreas Henschel – (D-TRUST), Aneta Wojtczak-Iwanicka – (Microsoft), Ben Dewberry – (Keyfactor), Ben Wilson – (Mozilla), Brianca Martin – (Amazon), Brittany Randall – (GoDaddy), Bruce Morton – (Entrust), Bruce Wei – (TrustAsia Technologies, Inc.), Chris Clements – (Google), Chris Czajczyc – (Chris Czajczyc (Private Person)), Chris Kemmerer – (SSL.com), Christophe Bonjean – (GlobalSign), Clint Wilson – (Apple), Corey Bonnell – (DigiCert), Corey Rasmussen – (OATI), Daniel Jeffery – (Fastly), Daryn Wright – (GoDaddy), Dave Chin – (CPA Canada/WebTrust), David Kluge – (Google), Dimitris Zacharopoulos – (HARICA), Don Sheehy – (CPA Canada/WebTrust), Doug Beattie – (GlobalSign), Dre Armeda – (GoDaddy), Elaine Bronsther – (Sectigo), Ellie Lu – (TrustAsia Technologies, Inc.), Enrico Entschew – (D-TRUST), Eva Vansteenberge – (GlobalSign), George Fergadis – (HARICA), Hazhar Ismail – (MSC Trustgate Sdn Bhd), Hogeun Yoo – (NAVER Cloud), Ian McMillan – (Microsoft), Inaba Atsushi – (GlobalSign), Inigo Barreira – (Sectigo), Jamie Mackey – (US Federal PKI Management Authority), Janet Hines – (VikingCloud), Jeremy Rowley – (DigiCert), Joanna Fox – (TrustCor Systems), Jos Purvis – (Fastly), Jozef Nigut – (Disig), JP Hamilton – (Cisco Systems), Karina Sirota – (Microsoft), Kathleen Wilson – (Mozilla), Li-Chun Chen – (Chunghwa Telecom), Lynn Jeun – (Visa), Mads Henriksveen – (Buypass AS), Marcelo Silva – (Visa), Martijn Katerbarg – (Sectigo), Matthias Wiedenhorst – (ACAB Council), Michael Slaughter – (Amazon), Michelle Coon – (OATI), Nargis Mannan – (VikingCloud), Nick France – (Sectigo), Paul van Brouwershaven – (Entrust), Pedro Fuentes – (OISTE Foundation), Pekka Lahtiharju – (Telia Company), Peter Miskovic – (Disig), Raffaela Achermann – (SwissSign), Rebecca Kelley – (Apple), Renne Rodriguez – (Apple), RIch Smith – (DigiCert), Rollin Yu – (TrustAsia Technologies, Inc.), Ryan Dickson – (Google), Samantha Frank – (Let’s Encrypt), Sissel Hoel – (Buypass AS), Star Simmons – (GoDaddy), Stephen Davidson – (DigiCert), Steven Deitte – (GoDaddy), Tadahiko Ito – (SECOM Trust Systems), Thomas Zermeno – (SSL.com), Tim Callan – (Sectigo), Tim Crawford – (CPA Canada/WebTrust), Tim Hollebeek – (DigiCert), Tobias Josefowitz – (Opera Software AS), Tsung-Min Kuo – (Chunghwa Telecom), Yoshiro Yoneya (JPRS)
2023-03-01 Minutes of the S/MIME Certificate Working Group
March 1, 2023 by Stephen DavidsonMinutes of SMCWG March 1, 2023 These are the Approved Minutes of the Teleconference described in the subject of this message. Corrections and clarifications where needed are encouraged by reply.
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