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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Moudrick, the deadline for the votes was 11:45 am Eastern – this came in at 2:15 pm Eastern, so we can’t count it. However, the ballot passed, so no harm done.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="color:windowtext"> Public [mailto:public-bounces@cabforum.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Moudrick M. Dadashov via Public<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, August 16, 2018 11:15 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Tim Hollebeek <tim.hollebeek@digicert.com>; CA/Browser Forum Public Discussion List <public@cabforum.org><br>
<b>Cc:</b> servercert-wg@cabforum.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL]Re: [cabfpub] Voting begins: Ballot SC3 version 2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">SSC votes: "Yes".<br>
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Thanks,<br>
M.D.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 8/9/2018 6:48 PM, Tim Hollebeek via Public wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><a href="https://github.com/cabforum/documents/compare/SC3-PasswordChangesDieDieDie?expand=1">https://github.com/cabforum/documents/compare/SC3-PasswordChangesDieDieDie?expand=1</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Ballot SC3: Two-Factor Authentication and Password Improvements</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Purpose of Ballot: The Network Security Working Group met a number of times to
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">improve the Network Security Guidelines requirements around authentication,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">specifically by requiring two-factor authentication, and improving the password
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">requirements in line with more recent NIST guidelines.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">While CAs are encouraged to improve their password requirements as soon as
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">possible, a two year grace period is being given to allow organizations to
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">develop and implement policies to implement the improved requirements, especially</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">since some organizations may have to simultaneously comply with other</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">compliance frameworks that have not been updated yet and are based on older NIST
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">guidance about passwords.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The following motion has been proposed by Tim Hollebeek of DigiCert and endorsed
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">by Dimitris Zacharopoulos of Harica and Neil Dunbar of TrustCor.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">— MOTION BEGINS –</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">This ballot modifies the “Network and Certificate System Security Requirements”
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">as follows, based upon Version 1.1:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">In the definitions, add a definition for Multi-Factor Authentication:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">"Multi-Factor Authentication: An authentication mechanism consisting of two or
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">more of the following independent categories of credentials (i.e. factors) to
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">verify the user’s identity for a login or other transaction: something you know
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">(knowledge factor), something you have (possession factor), and something you
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">are (inherence factor). Each factor must be independent. Certificate-based
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">authentication can be used as part of Multifactor Authentication only if the
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">private key is stored in a Secure Key Storage Device."</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Capitalize all instances of the defined term "Multi-Factor Authentication".</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Add a definition for Secure Key Storage Device:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">"Secure Key Storage Device: A device certified as meeting at least FIPS 140-2</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">level 2 overall, level 3 physical, or Common Criteria (EAL 4+)."</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">In section 1.j., capitalize Multi-Factor Authentication, and strike the
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">parenthetical reference to subsection 2.n.(ii).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">In section 2.f., add "(for accountability purposes, group accounts or shared</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">role credentials SHALL NOT be used)" after "authenticate to Certificate Systems".</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Change section 2.g. to read:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">"g. If an authentication control used by a Trusted Role is a username and password,
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> then, where technically feasible, implement the following controls:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> i. For accounts that are accessible only within Secure Zones or High Security
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> Zones, require that passwords have at least twelve (12) characters;
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> ii. For authentications which cross a zone boundary into a Secure Zone or High
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> Security Zone, require Multi-Factor Authentication. For accounts accessible
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> from outside a Secure Zone or High Security Zone require passwords that have
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> at least eight (8) characters and are not be one of the user's previous
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> four (4) passwords; and implement account lockout for failed access attempts
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> in accordance with subsection k;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> iii. When developing password policies, CAs SHOULD take into account the password
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> guidance in NIST 800-63B Appendix A.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> iv. Frequent password changes have been shown to cause users to select less
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> secure passwords. If the CA has any policy that specifies routine periodic
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> password changes, that period SHOULD NOT be less than two years. Effective
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> April 1, 2020, if the CA has any policy that requires routine periodic password
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> changes, that period SHALL NOT be less than two years.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">In section 2.h., change "Require" to "Have a policy that requires"</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">In section 2.i., change "Configure" to "Have a procedure to configure"</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Change section 2.k. to read:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">"k. Lockout account access to Certificate Systems after no more than five (5) failed
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> access attempts, provided that this security measure:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> i. is supported by the Certificate System,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> ii. Cannot be leveraged for a denial of service attack, and</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> iii. does not weaken the security of this authentication control;"</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Change section 2.n. to read:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">"Enforce Multi-Factor Authentication for all Trusted Role accounts on Certificate</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Systems (including those approving the issuance of a Certificate, which equally</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">applies to Delegated Third Parties) that are accessible from outside a Secure Zone</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">or High Security Zone; and"</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">— MOTION ENDS –</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The procedure for approval of this ballot is as follows:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Discussion (7+ days)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Start Time: 2018-07-26 17:45 Eastern</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">End Time: 2018-08-09 11:45 Eastern</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Start Time: 2018-08-09 11:45 Eastern</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">End Time: 2018-08-16 11:45 Eastern</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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