[Cscwg-public] [EXTERNAL] [Voting Period Begins] CSC-26 Timestamping Private Key Protection

[Bruce Morton]

Entrust votes Yes to ballot CSC-26.


Bruce.

From: Cscwg-public <cscwg-public-bounces at cabforum.org> On Behalf Of Martijn Katerbarg via Cscwg-public
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2024 12:31 PM
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] [Cscwg-public] [Voting Period Begins] CSC-26 Timestamping Private Key Protection


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...12130ff7c2b41d795d47925c084780ea0f7328cd

MOTION ENDS
The procedure for this ballot is as follows:

Discussion (7 days)

  *   Start Time: 2024-06-13 16:30 UTC
  *   End Time: 2024-06-20 16:30 UTC

Vote for approval (7 days)

  *   Start Time: 2024-06-20 16:30 UTC
  *   End Time: 2024-06-27 16:30 UTC


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