[cabfpub] Ballot 185 (Revised) - Limiting the Lifetime of Certificates

[Frank Corday]

Trustwave votes No to 185

Trustwave sees the need for lower validity periods, but the industry will need time to adapt.  We support a two-year validity period going into effect October 1st (4th quarter lockdown makes changes near year end difficult).  And, one year later reducing to a one-year validity period.  We would certainly welcome further dialogue and consider subsequent ballots on limiting certificate lifetimes to insure all parties involved have adequate preparation time.

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Subject: [cabfpub] Ballot 185 (Revised) - Limiting the Lifetime of Certificates

Pursuant to the consensus on https://cabforum.org/pipermail/public/2017-February/009530.html<https://scanmail.trustwave.com/?c=4062&d=h8qr2FjJdHJHAnDQYXR2YJX7CpchjOFRye8HmoM6wg&s=5&u=https%3a%2f%2fcabforum%2eorg%2fpipermail%2fpublic%2f2017-February%2f009530%2ehtml> about the nature of changes during the discussion period, and the request from Gervase on https://cabforum.org/pipermail/public/2017-February/009618.html<https://scanmail.trustwave.com/?c=4062&d=h8qr2FjJdHJHAnDQYXR2YJX7CpchjOFRyb8Kx4Y5yQ&s=5&u=https%3a%2f%2fcabforum%2eorg%2fpipermail%2fpublic%2f2017-February%2f009618%2ehtml> to adjust what represents the Baseline agreement, this adjusts the effective date from 1 April to 24 August. While individual programs may choose to enact or enforce requirements prior to that, as the Baseline Requirements capture the effective point of common agreement of the bare minimum security levels, it seems appropriate that this Ballot accurately reflect that.


Ballot 185 - Limiting the Lifetime of Certificates

The following motion has been proposed by Ryan Sleevi of Google, Inc and endorsed by Josh Aas of ISRG and Gervase Markham of Mozilla to introduce new Final Maintenance Guidelines for the "Baseline Requirements Certificate Policy for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted Certificates" and the "Guidelines for the Issuance and Management of Extended Validation Certificates"

-- MOTION BEGINS --
Modify Section 6.3.2 of the "Baseline Requirements Certificate Policy for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted Certificates" as follows:

Replace Section 6.3.2, which reads as follows:
"""
6.3.2. Certificate Operational Periods and Key Pair Usage Periods

Subscriber Certificates issued after the Effective Date MUST have a Validity Period no greater than 60 months.
Except as provided for below, Subscriber Certificates issued after 1 April 2015 MUST have a Validity Period
no greater than 39 months.

Until 30 June 2016, CAs MAY continue to issue Subscriber Certificates with a Validity Period greater than 39
months but not greater than 60 months provided that the CA documents that the Certificate is for a system or
software that:
(a) was in use prior to the Effective Date;
(b) is currently in use by either the Applicant or a substantial number of Relying Parties;
(c) fails to operate if the Validity Period is shorter than 60 months;
(d) does not contain known security risks to Relying Parties; and
(e) is difficult to patch or replace without substantial economic outlay
"""

with the following text:
"""
6.3.2. Certificate Operational Periods and Key Pair Usage Periods

Subscriber Certificates issued on or after 24 August 2017 MUST NOT have a Validity Period greater than three hundred and ninety-eight (398) days.

Subscriber Certificates issued prior to 24 August 2017 MUST NOT have a Validity Period greater than thirty-nine (39) months.
"""

Modify Section 9.4 of the "Guidelines for the Issuance and Management of Extended Validation Certificates" as follows:

Replace Section 9.4, which reads as follows:
"""
9.4. Maximum Validity Period For EV Certificate

The validity period for an EV Certificate SHALL NOT exceed twenty seven months. It is RECOMMENDED that EV
Subscriber Certificates have a maximum validity period of twelve months.
"""

with the following text:
""""
9.4 Maximum Validity Period for EV Certificate

EV Certificates issued on or after 24 August 2017 MUST NOT have a Validity Period greater than three hundred and ninety-eight (398) days.

EV Certificates issued prior to 24 August 2017 MUST NOT have a Validity Period greater than twenty seven (27) months.
"""
-- MOTION ENDS --

Ballot 185 - Limiting the Lifetime of Certificates
Status: Final Maintenance Guideline

Review Period:
Start Time: 2017-02-10 00:00:00 UTC
End Time: 2017-02-17 00:00:00 UTC

Vote for Approval:
Start Time: 2017-02-17 00:00:00 UTC
End Time: 2017-02-24 00:00:00 UTC

Votes must be cast by posting an on-list reply to this thread on the Public Mail List.

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In order for the ballot to be adopted, two thirds or more of the votes cast by Members in the CA category and greater than 50% of the votes cast by members in the browser category must be in favor.

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