Tag Archives: Code Signing

Ballot 172 – Removal of permanentIdentifier from EV Code Signing Guidelines

Voting on Ballot 172, “Removal of Permanent Identifier” has now closed. The results are as follows: From the CAs, we received 9 YES votes, 1 NO vote and 7 Abstentions From the Browsers, we received 1 YES vote, 0 NO votes and 0 Abstentions Therefore the ballot passes.  Full results can be seen on the ballot tracker: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FBsMZjlzyvK3mFR1u4qMqvZwlI86yJ-v0am1pCBo8uI/edit#gid=4 Dean Coclin …

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Ballot 158 – Adoption of Code Signing Baseline Requirements

Voting on Ballot 158 (Code Signing BRs) closed on 17 December 2015.   The results are as follows: In the CA category, 17 CAs voted YES, 1 voted NO and 3 Abstained In the Browser category, 2 browsers voted YES, 3 browsers voted NO and none Abstained Therefore the ballot fails. Detailed results can be seen here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FBsMZjlzyvK3mFR1u4qMqvZwlI86yJ-v0am1pCBo8uI/edit#gid=4   After a …

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Ballot 132 – EV Code Signing Timestamp Validity Period (passed)

Voting on Ballot 132 (amending the EV Code Signing Timestamp Validity Period) closed 16 September 2014.  Voting in favor were:  Actalis, Comodo, DigiCert, Disig, Entrust, GlobalSign, GoDaddy, OpenTrust, Symantec, Trend Micro, WoSign, ANF, Certum, Mozilla and Microsoft.  There were no votes against and no abstentions.  Therefore, Ballot 132 passed. Ballot 132 – EV Code Signing Timestamp Validity Period Rationale for …

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Ballot 117 – EV Code Signing Guidelines Corrections(passed)

Ballot 117 – EV Code Signing Guidelines Corrections Yea: ANF, Certinomis, DigiCert, GlobalSign, Izenpe, Logius PKIoverheid, OpenTrust, QuoVadis, SECOM Trust, SSC, StartCom, Symantec, Trend Micro, Trustis, WoSign, Microsoft, and Mozilla. Nay: Comodo, Network Solutions, and Google. Abstain: Buypass Results: Ballot passed Updated version is posted here on the EV Code Signing page. Jeremy Rowley of DigiCert made the following motion, …

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Ballot 70 – EV Code Signing Identifier

Ballot 70 – EV Code Signing Identifier (Passed Unanimously) Motion Jeremy Rowley made the following motion, and Tom Albertson and Bruce Morton endorsed it: … Motion begins…. Effective immediately. … Erratum begins … DELETE the following text from the EV Guidelines Appendix H: “(3) Certificate Content. EV Code Signing Certificates MUST meet the minimum content requirements of Section 8.1 and …

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