[Servercert-wg] [EXTERNAL]-Re: Ballot SC-75 - Pre-sign linting

Tue May 21 08:03:07 UTC 2024

IMHO…

1. Currently CAs are expected already to do pre-issuance linting… I don’t know if a “SHOULD” changes effectively the situation… For me it seems that this initiative seems more for a “MUST” than a “SHOULD”… or it could also be a “SHOULD” linked to an effective date and a “MUST” linked to another date… (given what I mention in #3)

2. I agree with Iñigo that the “(and help improve)” is more an expectation than a requirement, so I don’t think it’s appropriate.

3. It must be understood that this will bring technical barriers that some ICAs will find, specially those running (probably technically constrained CAs) MS AD CS, EJBCA Community or other CA software that don’t facilitate “out of the box" pre-issuance linting. Not saying that this should stop the ballot to go ahead, but I wonder if the technical impact has been evaluated.

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> On 21 May 2024, at 09:31, Inigo Barreira via Servercert-wg <servercert-wg at cabforum.org> wrote:
> 
> Sure, in the last para of section 4.3.1.2, the sentence “… but CAs SHOULD use (and help improve) the Linting tools …” and I was suggesting removing that “(and help improve)” because IMO this can´t go in the main requirement/recommendation and “the help to improve” be seen as another requirement instead of a suggestion or willing to act which I think is what you had in mind.
>  
> De: Dimitris Zacharopoulos <dzacharo at harica.gr <mailto:dzacharo at harica.gr>> 
> Enviado el: lunes, 20 de mayo de 2024 22:01
> Para: Inigo Barreira <Inigo.Barreira at sectigo.com <mailto:Inigo.Barreira at sectigo.com>>
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> Asunto: Re: [Servercert-wg] Ballot SC-75 - Pre-sign linting
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> Hello Inigo, 
> 
> Can you be more specific? Which part of the ballot redline seems to need an update/removal? 
> 
> 
> Thanks, 
> DZ.
> 
> May 20, 2024 21:03:50 Inigo Barreira <Inigo.Barreira at sectigo.com <mailto:Inigo.Barreira at sectigo.com>>:
> 
> Hi Dimitris,
> I don´t know if the “(help to improve)” is adding any additional hidden requirement. IMO, I´d remove that.
> Regards
> De: Servercert-wg <servercert-wg-bounces at cabforum.org <mailto:servercert-wg-bounces at cabforum.org>> En nombre de Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA) via Servercert-wg
> Enviado el: lunes, 20 de mayo de 2024 19:57
> Para: CA/B Forum Server Certificate WG Public Discussion List <servercert-wg at cabforum.org <mailto:servercert-wg at cabforum.org>>
> Asunto: [Servercert-wg] Ballot SC-75 - Pre-sign linting
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> SC-75 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://github.com/cabforum/servercert/pull/518>. 
> 
> Motion Begins
> 
> MODIFY the "Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted TLS Server Certificates" based on Version 2.0.4 as specified in the following redline:
> 
> https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/049237e096650fe01f67780b7c24bd5211ee3038...ada5d6e0db76b32be28d64edd7b0677bbef9c2f5 
> 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: 2024-05-20 18:00:00 UTC
> End time: on or after 2024-05-27 18:00:00 UTC
> Vote for approval (7 days)
> 
> Start time: TBD
> End time: TBD
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