[Cscwg-public] [Discussion Period Begins] CSC-24: Timestamping Private Key Protection

[Martijn Katerbarg]

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 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...9288f7ec376b4bbd139dcb596bcb2d1bf9bd7683 <https://github.com/cabforum/code-signing/compare/d431d9104094f2b89f35ed4bf1d64b9a844e762b...9288f7ec376b4bbd139dcb596bcb2d1bf9bd7683> 
MOTION ENDS 
The procedure for this ballot is as follows: 
Discussion (7 days) 

* Start Time: 2024-04-02 21:00 UTC
* End Time: Not before 2024-04-09 21:00 UTC 
Vote for approval (7 days) 

* Start Time: TBD
* End Time: TBD


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