[Servercert-wg] Ballot SC-75 v2 - Pre-sign linting

Martijn Katerbarg martijn.katerbarg at sectigo.com
Mon Jun 10 12:29:05 UTC 2024


Dimitris, 


I’ve got a question as to the intent of the following line from section 8.7: 

“Effective 2025-03-15, the CA SHOULD use a Linting process to verify the technical accuracy of Certificates within the selected sample set.” 

Is the intent here that the CA should re-lint the selected sample set, even if they were originally linted during the issuance process (as pre-issuance, post-issuance, or both)? 

Regards,

Martijn 

From: Servercert-wg <servercert-wg-bounces at cabforum.org> on behalf of Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA) via Servercert-wg <servercert-wg at cabforum.org>
Date: Monday, 10 June 2024 at 12:36
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Subject: [Servercert-wg] Ballot SC-75 v2 - Pre-sign linting 

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SC-75 v2 Pre-sign linting Summary There have been numerous compliance incidents publicly disclosed by CAs in which they failed to comply with the technical requirements described in standards associated with the issuance and management of publicly-trusted TLS Certificates. However, the industry has developed open-source tools, linters, that are free to use and can help CAs avoid certificate misissuance. Using such linters before issuing a precertificate from a Publicly-Trusted CA (pre-issuance linting) can prevent the mis-issuance in a wide variety of cases. 
The following motion has been proposed by Dimitris Zacharopoulos of HARICA and endorsed by Corey Bonnell of Digicert and Ben Wilson of Mozilla. 
You can view the GitHub pull request representing this ballot here <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fcabforum%2Fservercert%2Fpull%2F518&data=05%7C02%7Cmartijn.katerbarg%40sectigo.com%7C4f08a6cb46f94d8303be08dc89393e45%7C0e9c48946caa465d96604b6968b49fb7%7C0%7C0%7C638536126159182982%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=8UNBMOzqoiWCRqa8mSWP97aUBmMeLVPtDLBQ7qNYJuU%3D&reserved=0>. 
Motion Begins MODIFY the "Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted TLS Server Certificates" based on Version 2.0.5 as specified in the following redline: 

* https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/20af1b271f2b689344ae353d3e78dc6b772199db...cc88926a3dee348a364542e5e259e9c7cab1f747 <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fcabforum%2Fservercert%2Fcompare%2F20af1b271f2b689344ae353d3e78dc6b772199db...cc88926a3dee348a364542e5e259e9c7cab1f747&data=05%7C02%7Cmartijn.katerbarg%40sectigo.com%7C4f08a6cb46f94d8303be08dc89393e45%7C0e9c48946caa465d96604b6968b49fb7%7C0%7C0%7C638536126159193852%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=evt9RYpYgB3cPSc9gj3A9AakPW04Ivyf%2FobDHIeU4CE%3D&reserved=0> 
Motion Ends This ballot proposes a Final Maintenance Guideline. The procedure for approval of this ballot is as follows: 
Discussion (at least 7 days) 
* Start time: 2024-06-10 10:00:00 UTC 
* End time: on or after 2024-06-17 10:00:00 UTC 
Vote for approval (7 days) 
* Start time: TBD 
* End time: TBD 





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