Hi Ben and Kathleen,

 

“Insofar as the S/MIME or TLS Baseline Requirements attempt to define their own 
scope, the scope of this policy (section 1.1) overrides that. CA operations 
relating to issuance of all S/MIME or TLS server certificates in the scope of 
this policy SHALL conform to the S/MIME or TLS Baseline Requirements, as 
applicable.”

 

Section 1.1 of the MRSP states “[…], such end entity certificates having 
either: an Extended Key Usage (EKU) extension that contains one or more of 
these KeyPurposeIds: anyExtendedKeyUsage, id-kp-serverAuth, 
id-kp-emailProtection; or [….]”

 

Section 1.1 of the SBR states “An S/MIME Certificate for the purposes of this 
document can be identified by the existence of an Extended Key Usage (EKU) for 
id-kp-emailProtection (OID: 1.3.6.1.5.5.7.3.4) and the inclusion of a 
rfc822Name or an otherName of type id-on-SmtpUTF8Mailbox in the subjectAltName 
extension.”

 

Is the intention of the Mozilla Root Store Policy update to apply the SMIME BRs 
to all certificates with the EKU EmailProtection, including certificates 
without an rfc822Name or an otherName, such as certificates for document and 
pdf signing purposes? 

 

I recall these use cases being discussed in the working group and intentionally 
out-scoping them from the SBRs to avoid unintended adverse effects, so wonder 
how to interpret the proposed update to the MRSP.

 

Kind regards,

 

Christophe

 

From: dev-security-policy@mozilla.org <dev-security-policy@mozilla.org> On 
Behalf Of Ben Wilson
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2023 12:54 AM
To: dev-secur...@mozilla.org <dev-security-policy@mozilla.org>
Subject: MRSP 2.9: S/MIME BRs and Audits

 

All,

This email opens up discussion of our proposed resolution of GitHub Issue #258 
<https://github.com/mozilla/pkipolicy/issues/258>  (SMIME Baseline 
Requirements). 

We plan to add requirements to version 2.9 of the  
<https://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/certs/policy/> Mozilla Root Store 
Policy regarding the CA/Browser Forum’s S/MIME Baseline Requirements.

We propose to update Mozilla’s Root Store Policy to require annual S/MIME BR 
audits as follows.

*       Section 2.2, second bullet point modified to directly reference that 
email verification must be in accordance with section 3.2.2 of the S/MIME BRs
*       Section 2.3, 

*       First paragraph – add the following sentence (as a second sentence):

Certificates issued on or after September 1, 2023, that are capable of being 
used to digitally sign or encrypt email messages, and CA operations relating to 
the issuance of such certificates, MUST conform to the latest version of the 
CA/Browser Forum Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of 
Publicly-Trusted S/MIME Certificates.

o    Change the remaining references of “Baseline Requirements” in this section 
to “S/MIME and TLS Baseline Requirements”. To indicate that the statements 
apply to both.

*       Section 3.1.2

*       Add ETSI TS 119 411-6 as audit criteria
*       Add WebTrust for CAs - S/MIME as audit criteria

*       Sections 3.2, 3.3, 5.2, 7.1

*       Change “Baseline Requirements” to “S/MIME and TLS Baseline 
Requirements”. To indicate that the statements apply to both.

*       Section 5.1 add a statement:  “The following curves are not prohibited, 
but are not currently supported:  P-521, Curve25519, and Curve448.”

*       And add a sentence:  “EdDSA keys MAY be included in certificates that 
chain to a root certificate in our root program if the certificate contains 
‘id-kp-emailProtection` in the EKU extension. Otherwise, EdDSA keys MUST NOT be 
included.”

*       Section 5.3.1

*       Move the following sentence from the end of the current second 
paragraph up to its own stand-alone paragraph.

*       "The conformance requirements defined in section 2.3 of this policy 
also apply to technically constrained intermediate certificates."

*       Revise last paragraph with proposed new text:

*       “If the intermediate CA certificate includes the id-kp-emailProtection 
extended key usage, then to be considered technically constrained, it MUST 
comply with section 7.1.5 of the <https://cabforum.org/smime-br/>  S/MIME 
Baseline Requirements and include the Name Constraints X.509v3 extension with 
constraints on rfc822Name, with at least one name in permittedSubtrees, each 
such name having its ownership validated according to section 3.2.2 of the 
<https://cabforum.org/smime-br/>  S/MIME Baseline Requirements.” 

*       Change remaining existing occurrences of “Baseline Requirements” to 
“TLS Baseline Requirements”.

We look forward to your constructive feedback on these proposed changes to the 
MRSP.

 

We will start a separate discussion about dates/timelines and when compliance 
audits will be due for these new requirements.

 

Regards,

 

Ben and Kathleen

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