[Servercert-wg] Voting Period Begins - Ballot SC-59 v2 "Weak Key Guidance"

[Ben Wilson]

Mozilla votes "yes" on Ballot SC-059, v.2, Weak Key Guidance

On Thu, Jul 6, 2023 at 10:17 AM Tom Zermeno via Servercert-wg <
servercert-wg at cabforum.org> wrote:

> *Purpose of the Ballot SC-59*
>
> This ballot proposes updates to the Baseline Requirements for the Issuance
> and Management of Publicly-Trusted Certificates related to the
> identification and revocation of certificates with private keys that were
> generated in a manner that may make them susceptible to easy decryption. It
> specifically deals with Debian weak keys, ROCA, and Close Primes
> Vulnerability.
>
> Notes:
>
>    - Thank you to the participants who voiced opinions and concerns about
>    the previous version of the ballot.  While there were many concerns about
>    the inclusion of the Debian weak keys checks, we have decided to leave the
>    checks in the ballot.  Our reasoning is that we wanted to strengthen the
>    guidance statements, to help CAs ensure compliant certificate generation.
>    Future reviews of the BRs may cull the requirements, as is required by the
>    needs of the community.
>    - We believe that the requested date of November 15, 2023, will allow
>    enough time for Certificate Authorities to enact any changes to their
>    systems to ensure that they perform the weak key checks on all CSRs
>    submitted for TLS certificates.
>    - The changes introduced in SC-59 do not conflict with any of the
>    recent ballots. As observed with other ballots in the past, minor
>    administrative updates must be made to the proposed ballot text before
>    publication such that the appropriate Version # and Change History are
>    accurately represented (e.g., to indicate these changes will be represented
>    in Version 2.0.1).
>
> The following motion has been proposed by Thomas Zermeno of SSL.com and
> has been endorsed by Martijn Katerbarg of Sectigo and Ben Wilson of
> Mozilla.
>
> *- Motion Begins -*
>
> This ballot modifies the “Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and
> Management of Publicly-Trusted Certificates” (“Baseline Requirements”),
> based on Version 2.0.0.
>
> MODIFY the Baseline Requirements as specified in the following Redline:
> https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/a0360b61e73476959220dc328e3b68d0224fa0b3...SSLcom:servercert:958e6ccac857b826fead6e4bd06d58f4fdd7fa7a
>
>
> *- Motion Ends -*
>
> The procedure for approval of this ballot is as follows:
>
> Discussion (7 days)
>
> • Start time: 2023-06-26 22:00:00 UTC
>
> • End time: 2023-07-03 21:59:59 UTC
>
> *Vote for approval (7 days)*
>
> *  •  Start Time:  2023-07-06 17:00:00*
>
> *  •  End Time:   2023-07-13 16:59:59*
>
>
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