CA/Browser Forum

Code Signing Certificate Working Group Ballots

Ballots by Status

Voting Period

There are no ballots with the status "Voting Period" in the Code Signing Certificate Working Group

IPR Review Period

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Discussion Period

There are no ballots with the status "Discussion Period" in the Code Signing Certificate Working Group

Draft / Under Consideration

There are no ballots with the status "New" in the Code Signing Certificate Working Group
There are no ballots with the status "Pre-Ballot" in the Code Signing Certificate Working Group

Passed

  • CSC-32: Make a Reserved Policy OID mandatory
  • CSC-31: Maximum Validity Reduction
  • Forum-32: Election of CA/Browser Code Signing Certificate WG Vice Chair
  • Election ballot Forum-26: Election of CA/Browser Code Signing Certificate WG Chair
  • CSC-26 Timestamping Private Key Protection
  • CSC-25 Import EV Guidelines into CS BRs
  • CSC-23 Marking the EV Code Signing Guidelines SUPERCEDED
  • CSC-22 High Risk Requirements Update
  • CSC-21 Signing Service Update
  • CSC-20 Restore version reference to EV Guidelines
  • CSC 19 - Remove SSL BR References

Cancelled

There are no ballots with the status "Cancelled" in the Code Signing Certificate Working Group

Failed

  • CSC-030: 2025-06 SCWG alignment ballot
  • CSC-029: 2025-03 SCWG alignment ballot
  • CSC-24 Timestamping Private Key Protection

Information about Ballots

Latest releases
Server Certificate Requirements
SC098: Process RFC 8657 CAA Parameters - Jun 16, 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
v1.0.15 - Ballot SMC017v2 - Jul 30, 2026

This ballot increases the minimum RSA key size for Root and Subordinate CA certificates in the S/MIME BRs from 2048 to 4096 bits for keys created after September 15, 2026, while retaining the 2048-bit minimum for Subscriber certificates. The ballot further requires that by September 15, 2027, CAs SHALL NOT issue Subscriber certificates from any Sub-CA whose RSA key modulus is less than 3072 bits, effectively sunsetting issuance from legacy 2048-bit Sub-CAs. The ballot also includes minor typographic corrections. This ballot is proposed by Martijn Katerbarg (Sectigo) and endorsed by Ben Wilson (Mozilla) and Stephen Davidson (DigiCert)

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

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