<div><span style="font-family: "lucida Grande", Verdana, "Microsoft YaHei";">SHECA </span><span style="font-family: "lucida Grande", Verdana, "Microsoft YaHei";"></span><span style="font-family: "lucida Grande", Verdana, "Microsoft YaHei";">votes Yes on ballot SC3 version 2.</span></div><div><br></div><div><div style="color:#909090;font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:12px">------------------</div><div style="font-size:14px;font-family:Verdana;color:#000;"><p style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 29px; margin: 0; color: #333399">DAI YEQI</p>
<p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0; color: #333399">daiyeqi@sheca.com, +862136393162</p>
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<p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0;">Shanghai Electronic Certificate Authority Center Co., Ltd.</p>
<p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0;">18F, No.1717</p>
<p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0;">North Sichuan Road, Hongkou District</p>
<p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0;">Shanghai, China</p></div></div><div> </div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px;font-family: Arial Narrow;padding:2px 0 2px 0;">------------------ Original ------------------</div><div style="font-size: 12px;background:#efefef;padding:8px;"><div><b>From: </b> "Tim Hollebeek via Servercert-wg"<servercert-wg@cabforum.org>;</div><div><b>Date: </b> Thu, Aug 9, 2018 11:48 PM</div><div><b>To: </b> "CA/Browser Forum Public Discussion List"<public@cabforum.org>;<wbr></div><div><b>Cc: </b> "servercert-wg@cabforum.org"<servercert-wg@cabforum.org>; <wbr></div><div><b>Subject: </b> [Servercert-wg] Voting begins: Ballot SC3 version 2</div></div><div><br></div>
<style></style><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">https://github.com/cabforum/documents/compare/SC3-PasswordChangesDieDieDie?expand=1<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Ballot SC3: Two-Factor Authentication and Password Improvements<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></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 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">improve the Network Security Guidelines requirements around authentication,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">specifically by requiring two-factor authentication, and improving the password <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">requirements in line with more recent NIST guidelines.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></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 <o:p></o:p></span></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 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">develop and implement policies to implement the improved requirements, especially<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">since some organizations may have to simultaneously comply with other<o:p></o:p></span></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 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">guidance about passwords.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></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 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">by Dimitris Zacharopoulos of Harica and Neil Dunbar of TrustCor.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">— MOTION BEGINS –<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">This ballot modifies the “Network and Certificate System Security Requirements” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">as follows, based upon Version 1.1:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">In the definitions, add a definition for Multi-Factor Authentication:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">"Multi-Factor Authentication: An authentication mechanism consisting of two or <o:p></o:p></span></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 <o:p></o:p></span></p><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 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">(knowledge factor), something you have (possession factor), and something you <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">are (inherence factor). Each factor must be independent. Certificate-based <o:p></o:p></span></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 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">private key is stored in a Secure Key Storage Device."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Capitalize all instances of the defined term "Multi-Factor Authentication".<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Add a definition for Secure Key Storage Device:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></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<o:p></o:p></span></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+)."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></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 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">parenthetical reference to subsection 2.n.(ii).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></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<o:p></o:p></span></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".<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Change section 2.g. to read:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></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, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> then, where technically feasible, implement the following controls:<o:p></o:p></span></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 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> Zones, require that passwords have at least twelve (12) characters; <o:p></o:p></span></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 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> Security Zone, require Multi-Factor Authentication. For accounts accessible <o:p></o:p></span></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 <o:p></o:p></span></p><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 <o:p></o:p></span></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 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> in accordance with subsection k;<o:p></o:p></span></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 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> guidance in NIST 800-63B Appendix A.<o:p></o:p></span></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 <o:p></o:p></span></p><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 <o:p></o:p></span></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 <o:p></o:p></span></p><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 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> changes, that period SHALL NOT be less than two years.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></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"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></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"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Change section 2.k. to read:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></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 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> access attempts, provided that this security measure:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> i. is supported by the Certificate System,<o:p></o:p></span></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<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> iii. does not weaken the security of this authentication control;"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Change section 2.n. to read:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></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<o:p></o:p></span></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<o:p></o:p></span></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<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">or High Security Zone; and"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">— MOTION ENDS –<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The procedure for approval of this ballot is as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Discussion (7+ days)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Start Time: 2018-07-26 17:45 Eastern<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">End Time: 2018-08-09 11:45 Eastern<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Vote for approval (7 days)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Start Time: 2018-08-09 11:45 Eastern<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">End Time: 2018-08-16 11:45 Eastern<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div>