Purpose of the Ballot This ballot updates the “Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly‐Trusted Code Signing Certificates“ version 3.7 in order to clarify language regarding Timestamp Authority Private Key Protection. The main goals of this ballot are to:
1. Require newly issued Timestamp Authority Subordinate CA Private Keys to be
stored in offline HSMs
2. Add a requirement to remove Private Keys associated with Timestamp
Certificates after a 18 months
3. Add a requirement to reject SHA-1 timestamp requests
The following motion has been proposed by Martijn Katerbarg of Sectigo and
endorsed by Bruce Morton of Entrust and Ian McMillan of Microsoft.
MOTION BEGINS
This ballot updates the “Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management
of Publicly‐Trusted Code Signing Certificates” ("Code Signing Baseline
Requirements") based on version 3.7. MODIFY the Code Signing Baseline
Requirements as specified in the following redline:
https://github.com/cabforum/code-signing/compare/d431d9104094f2b89f35ed4bf1d64b9a844e762b...84e8586846a0c836d5bccbe9ef74593358c5b421
<https://github.com/cabforum/code-signing/compare/d431d9104094f2b89f35ed4bf1d64b9a844e762b...84e8586846a0c836d5bccbe9ef74593358c5b421>
MOTION ENDS
The procedure for this ballot is as follows:
Discussion (7 days)
* Start Time: 2024-04-08 09:00 UTC
* End Time: Not before 2024-04-15 17:00 UTC
Vote for approval (7 days)
* Start Time: TBD
* End Time: TBD
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