[Servercert-wg] Voting period begins: SC-58: require distributionPoint in sharded CRLs

Clint Wilson clintw at apple.com
Tue Nov 1 16:53:52 UTC 2022


Apple votes Yes on Ballot SC-58.

> On Oct 31, 2022, at 9:15 AM, Aaron Gable via Servercert-wg <servercert-wg at cabforum.org> wrote:
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> Purpose of Ballot <>
> Recently, several conversations around the necessity of the distributionPoint field (and its containing Issuing Distribution Point extension) in sharded CRLs have come to the conclusion that, although the distributionPoint field serves an important purpose in defending against substitution attacks, RFC 5280's language does not actually require its presence.
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> This ballot augments the Baseline Requirements' CRL Profile to ensure that all sharded CRLs contain the distributionPoint field.
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> The following motion has been proposed by Aaron Gable of ISRG / Let's Encrypt, and endorsed by Clint Wilson of Apple, Corey Bonnell of DigiCert, and Dmitris Zacharopoulos of HARICA.
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> Motion Begins
> This ballot modifies the “Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted Certificates” (“Baseline Requirements”), based on Version 1.8.4.
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> MODIFY the Baseline Requirements as specified in the following Redline:
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> https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/bbca71465ed8a8a76383086039f52c750009286a..348756d64e863c19bcab404671abeeec985d6041
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> Motion Ends
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> This ballot proposes a Final Maintenance Guideline. The procedure for approval of this ballot is as follows:
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> Discussion (Completed)
> Start time: 2022-10-22 00:00:00 UTC
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> End time: Not before 2022-10-29 00:00:00 UTC
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> Vote for approval (7 days)
> Start time: 2022-10-31 16:00:00 UTC
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> End time: 2022-11-07 16:00:00 UTC
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