[cabfpub] Ballot 198 - Onion Revisions v2

Fri May 5 16:38:04 UTC 2017

OATI abstains on ballot 198 below as we do not issue EV certificates.

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On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 8:28 PM, Jeremy Rowley via Public <public at cabforum.org<mailto:public at cabforum.org>> wrote:
This ballot is now in voting.

Ballot 198 – .Onion Revisions

Appendix F of the EV Guidelines in unclear on what a CA does with the Tor Service Descriptor Hash extension. This ballot clarifies that inclusion of the extension in the TBSCertificate is required.

The following motion has been proposed by Jeremy Rowley of DigiCert and endorsed by Ryan Sleevi of Google and Erwann Abalea of DocuSign France to introduce new Final Maintenance Guidelines for the "Guidelines for the Issuance and Management of Extended Validation Certificates" (EV Guidelines).

-- MOTION BEGINS –

Revise Appendix F, Section 1 to read as follows:
Appendix F – Issuance of Certificates for .onion Domain Names
A CA may issue an EV Certificate containing the .onion Domain Name provided that issuance complies with the requirements set forth in this Appendix:

  1.  CAB Forum Tor Service Descriptor Hash extension (2.23.140.1.31)
The CAB Forum extension in of the TBSCertificate to convey hashes of keys related to .onion addresses.  The CA MUST include the Tor Service Descriptor Hash extension using the following format:
cabf-TorServiceDescriptorHash OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { 2.23.140.1.31 }
TorServiceDescriptorHash:: = SEQUENCE {
algorithm                        AlgorithmIdentifier
subjectPublicKeyHash   BIT STRING              }
Where the AlgorithmIdentifier is a hashing algorithm (defined in RFC 6234) performed over the raw Public Key of the .onion service and SubjectPublicKeyHash is the value of the hash output of the raw Public Key.

--Motion Ends--

The procedure for approval of this Final Maintenance Guideline ballot is as follows (exact start and end times may be adjusted to comply with applicable Bylaws and IPR Agreement):

BALLOT 198 Status: Final Maintenance Guideline

Start time (22:00 UTC)

End time (22:00 UTC)

Discussion (7 to 14 days)

April 24, 2017

May, 2017

Vote for approval (7 days)

May 1, 2017

May 8, 2017

If vote approves ballot: Review Period (Chair to send Review Notice) (30 days). If Exclusion Notice(s) filed, ballot approval is rescinded and PAG to be created. If no Exclusion Notices filed, ballot becomes effective at end of Review Period.

Upon filing of Review Notice by Chair

30 days after filing of Review Notice by Chair

>From Bylaw 2.3: If the Draft Guideline Ballot is proposing a Final Maintenance Guideline, such ballot will include a redline or comparison showing the set of changes from the Final Guideline section(s) intended to become a Final Maintenance Guideline, and need not include a copy of the full set of guidelines. Such redline or comparison shall be made against the Final Guideline section(s) as they exist at the time a ballot is proposed, and need not take into consideration other ballots that may be proposed subsequently, except as provided in Bylaw Section 2.3(j).

Votes must be cast by posting an on-list reply to this thread on the Public list. A vote in favor of the motion must indicate a clear 'yes' in the response. A vote against must indicate a clear 'no' in the response. A vote to abstain must indicate a clear 'abstain' in the response. Unclear responses will not be counted. The latest vote received from any representative of a voting member before the close of the voting period will be counted. Voting members are listed here: https://cabforum.org/members/

In order for the motion 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. Quorum is shown on CA/Browser Forum wiki. Under Bylaw 2.2(g), at least the required quorum number must participate in the ballot for the ballot to be valid, either by voting in favor, voting against, or abstaining.

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