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

Martijn Katerbarg martijn.katerbarg at sectigo.com
Tue May 21 08:08:19 UTC 2024


Regarding the contributing… I’m not even sure it should be a SHOULD. 

I like adding it as a guidance for CAs, especially any new CA that may start from scratch reading the BRs. So how about “CAs are encouraged to contribute to existing open-source linters”? 

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Date: Tuesday, 21 May 2024 at 10:05
To: Inigo Barreira <Inigo.Barreira at sectigo.com>
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Subject: Re: [Servercert-wg] Ballot SC-75 - Pre-sign linting 

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I see, it was added as a hint for CAs to also assist in improving these open source linting tools like some CAs have done in the past. As part of a SHOULD, it would be helpful to get some CAs involved into building and improving existing lints. 

I can remove the parenthesis and add it as a clear SHOULD if this is helpful. 

Will this work better? 


Dimitris 

PS: I will respond to Ryan's post later this week after consulting with the co-sponsors. 

May 21, 2024 10:31:41 Inigo Barreira <Inigo.Barreira at sectigo.com>: 

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> 
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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 
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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://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fcabforum%2Fservercert%2Fpull%2F518&data=05%7C02%7Cmartijn.katerbarg%40sectigo.com%7C0c51c3574574452dd83b08dc796cc04b%7C0e9c48946caa465d96604b6968b49fb7%7C0%7C0%7C638518755212271312%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=fxB%2FDgdORRnLCaLhp5bosMwYTwnC4%2BP9GX7cHna0N5I%3D&reserved=0>. 
Motion Begins MODIFY the "Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted TLS Server Certificates" based on Version 2.0.4 as specified in the following redline: 

* https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/049237e096650fe01f67780b7c24bd5211ee3038...ada5d6e0db76b32be28d64edd7b0677bbef9c2f5 <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fcabforum%2Fservercert%2Fcompare%2F049237e096650fe01f67780b7c24bd5211ee3038...ada5d6e0db76b32be28d64edd7b0677bbef9c2f5&data=05%7C02%7Cmartijn.katerbarg%40sectigo.com%7C0c51c3574574452dd83b08dc796cc04b%7C0e9c48946caa465d96604b6968b49fb7%7C0%7C0%7C638518755212284502%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=p6NEvIFNST35dk8S9z4VOHk1MzyDmtodSboof68v5Y8%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: 2024-05-20 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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