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Baseline Requirements for TLS Server Certificates and Extended Validation (EV) Guidelines

These documents are maintained by the Server Certificate Working Group.

Baseline Requirements for Code Signing Certificates

This document is maintained by the Code Signing Certificate Working Group.

Network and Certificate System Security Requirements

This document is maintained by the Network Security Working Group.

Bylaws

CA/Browser Forum Bylaws are available on the Bylaws page.

Intellectual Property Rights Policy Documents

IPR documents are available on the IPR Policy page.

Guidance on Deprecation of Use of Internal Names and IP Addresses

Guidance on the Deprecation of Use of Internal Names and IP Addresses is available here.

Latest releases

Server Certificate Requirements
SC100: DNSSEC Clarification and Consolidation - Sep 7, 2026

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
v1.0.16 - Ballot SMC018 - Sep 29, 2026

This ballot implements the requirements of CCADB Policy Section 6.3 relating to cross-certificates into the S/MIME BR effective immediately. The ballot also specifies that effective July 1, 2027 id-kp-emailProtection (mandatory) and the id-kp-clientAuth (optional) are the only extKeyUsage (EKU) permitted in both Subordinate CA Certificates and Subscriber Certificates. Finally, the ballot clarifies in the Definitions that Legacy Generation profiles were deprecated effective July 15, 2025. This ballot is proposed by Stephen Davidson (DigiCert) and endorsed by Dustin Hollinback (Apple) and Ashish Dhiman (GlobalSign)

Network and Certificate System Security Requirements
Version 2.0.5 (Ballot NS-008) - Jul 9, 2025