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EV Guidelines for TLS Server Certificates

Current Version

EV TLS Server Certificate Guidelines 2.0.1 – (redlined) - adopted by Ballot SC72

Previous Versions

EV TLS Server Certificate Guidelines 2.0.0 – (redlined) - adopted by Ballot SC65

EV TLS Server Certificate Guidelines 1.8.1 – (redlined) – adopted by Ballot SC68

EV TLS Server Certificate Guidelines 1.8.0 – (redlined) – adopted by Ballot SC56

EV SSL Certificate Guidelines 1.7.9 – (redlined) – adopted by Ballot SC54

EV SSL Certificate Guidelines 1.7.8 – (redlined) – adopted by Ballot SC48

EV SSL Certificate Guidelines 1.7.7 – (redlined) – adopted by Ballot SC47

EV SSL Certificate Guidelines 1.7.6 – (redlined) – adopted by Ballot SC42

EV SSL Certificate Guidelines 1.7.5 – (redlined) – adopted by Ballot SC41

EV SSL Certificate Guidelines 1.7.4 – (redlined) – adopted by Ballot SC35

EV SSL Certificate Guidelines 1.7.3 – (redlined) – adopted by Ballots SC30 and SC31

EV SSL Certificate Guidelines 1.7.2 – (redlined) – adopted by Ballot SC27

EV SSL Certificate Guidelines 1.7.1 – (redlined) – adopted by Ballot SC24

EV SSL Certificate Guidelines 1.7.0 – (redlined) – adopted by Ballot SC17

EV SSL Certificate Guidelines 1.6.9 – (redlined) – adopted by Ballot SC16

EV SSL Certificate Guidelines 1.6.8 – (redlined) – adopted by Ballot 217

EV SSL Certificate Guidelines 1.6.7 – (redlined) – adopted by Ballot 207

EV SSL Certificate Guidelines 1.6.6 – (redlined) – adopted by Ballot 192

EV SSL Certificate Guidelines 1.6.5 – (redlined) – adopted by Ballot 201

EV SSL Certificate Guidelines 1.6.4 – (redlined) – adopted by Ballot 191

EV SSL Certificate Guidelines 1.6.3 – (redlined) – (declared invalid)

EV SSL Certificate Guidelines 1.6.2 – (redlined) – adopted by Ballot 193 on 17 March 2017

EV SSL Certificate Guidelines 1.6.1 – (redlined) – adopted by Ballot 180 on 7 January 2017

EV SSL Certificate Guidelines 1.6.0 – (redlined) – adopted by Ballot 171 on 1 July 2016

EV SSL Certificate Guidelines 1.5.9 – (redlined) – adopted by Ballot 163

EV SSL Certificate Guidelines 1.5.8 – (redlined) – adopted by Ballot 162

EV SSL Certificate Guidelines 1.5.7 – (redlined) – adopted by Ballot 151

EV SSL Certificate Guidelines 1.5.6 – (redlined) – adopted by Ballot 147

EV SSL Certificate Guidelines 1.5.5 – (redlined) – adopted by Ballot 145 and Ballot 146

EV SSL Certificate Guidelines 1.5.4 – (redlined) – adopted by Ballot 146 on 16 April 2015 which reformatted the Baseline Requirements and created CAB Forum BR 1.3.0.

EV SSL Certificate Guidelines 1.5.3 – (redlined) – adopted by Ballot 144 on 18 February 2015

EV SSL Certificate Guidelines 1.5.2 – (redlined) – adopted by Ballot 123 on 16 October 2014

EV SSL Certificate Guidelines 1.5.1 – (redlined) – adopted by Ballot 131 on 12 September 2014

EV SSL Certificate Guidelines 1.5.0 – (redlined) – adopted by Ballot 126 on 24 July 2014

EV SSL Certificate Guidelines 1.4.9 – (redlined) – adopted by Ballot 127 on 17 July 2014

EV SSL Certificate Guidelines 1.4.8 – (redlined) – adopted by Ballot 124 on 5 June 2014

EV SSL Certificate Guidelines 1.4.7 – (redlined) – adopted by Ballot 120 on 5 June 2014

EV SSL Certificate Guidelines 1.4.6 – (redlined) – adopted on 24 March 2014

EV SSL Certificate Guidelines 1.4.5 – (redlined) – adopted on 28 January 2014

EV SSL Certificate Guidelines 1.4.4 – (redlined) – adopted on 13 January 2014

EV SSL Certificate Guidelines 1.4.3 – (redlined) – 9 July 2013 – 13 January 2014

EV SSL Certificate Guidelines 1.4.2 – (redlined) – effective May 31, 2013

EV SSL Certificate Guidelines 1.4.1 – None (see version 1.1 of the Baseline Requirements) (There was not a version 1.4.1 of the EV Guidelines because the change for Ballot 75 only addressed a provision in the Baseline Requirements.)

EV SSL Certificate Guidelines 1.4 – effective May 29, 2012

Errata 1.4 EV SSL Certificate Guidelines 1.3 – effective November 20, 2010

Errata 1.3 EV SSL Certificate Guidelines 1.2 – effective October 1, 2009

Errata 1.2 EV SSL Certificate Guidelines 1.1 – effective April 10, 2008

Errata 1.1 EV SSL Certificate Guidelines 1.0 – effective June 12, 2007 – April 11, 2008

Erratum to Guidelines 1 EV SSL Certificate Guidelines Draft 11 – valid through June 11, 2007

Latest releases
Code Signing Requirements
v3.8 - Aug 5, 2024

What’s Changed

Full Changelog: https://github.com/cabforum/code-signing/compare/v3.7...v3.8

S/MIME Requirements
v1.0.6 - Ballot SMC08 - Aug 29, 2024

This ballot sets a date by which issuance of certificates following the Legacy generation profiles must cease. It also includes the following minor updates:

  • Pins the domain validation procedures to v 2.0.5 of the TLS Baseline Requirements while the ballot activity for multi-perspective validation is concluded, and the SMCWG determines its corresponding course of action;
  • Updates the reference for SmtpUTF8Mailbox from RFC 8398 to RFC 9598; and
  • Small text corrections in the Reference section

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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