TrustCor votes YES on Ballot SC6v3.

Regards,

Neil

> On 31 Aug 2018, at 20:51, Wayne Thayer via Servercert-wg 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Here is version 3 of this ballot, incorporating changes to v2 suggested by 
> Bruce and Ryan (thanks!).
> 
> I noticed that our current bylaws have reverted back to a fixed-length 
> discussion period, so I have changed this version to comply.
> 
> ==========================================
> 
> Ballot SC6 version 3: Revocation Timeline Extension
> 
> Purpose of Ballot:
> Section 4.9.1.1 of the Baseline Requirements currently requires CAs to revoke 
> a Subscriber certificate within 24 hours of identifying any of 15 issues 
> affecting the certificate. In cases where there is not an immediate threat of 
> misuse of the certificate, this requirement can cause undue harm to a 
> Subscriber that isn't capable of replacing the certificate prior to 
> revocation. This ballot makes a number of improvements to the revocation 
> rules imposed by the Baseline Requirements:
> * Primarily, it creates a tiered timeline for revocations. The most critical 
> "reasons" still require revocation within 24 hours, but for many others 24 
> hours becomes a SHOULD and the CA has 5 days before they MUST revoke.
> * A new "reason for revocation" was added to address the fact that there is 
> currently no requirement for CAs to revoke a certificate when requested by 
> the domain name registrant. After considering some more specific language 
> that required CAs to follow 3.2.2.4 to validate domain control, I settled on 
> the following more general "reason": "The CA obtains evidence that the 
> validation of domain authorization or control for any Fully-Qualified Domain 
> Name or IP address in the Certificate should not be relied upon."
> * Reason #10 states "The CA determines that any of the information appearing 
> in the Certificate is inaccurate or misleading;" This ballot removes "or 
> misleading" because that is a subjective judgement that could effectively be 
> used to justify censorship, as discussed at length in relation to the 
> "Stripe, Inc of Kentucky" EV certificates.
> * Current reasons #11 and #13 were removed from the section on subscriber 
> certificates because they address cases where the intermediate and/or root 
> must be revoked, so there isn't much sense (and some possible harm) in 
> requiring revocation of all the leaf certs.
> * It requires CAs to disclose their problem reporting mechanisms in a 
> standard location: CPS section 1.5.2.
> * Within 24 hours of receiving a problem report, the CA is now required to 
> report back to both the entity reporting the problem and the Subscriber on 
> the CA's findings, and to work with the reporter and Subscriber to establish 
> a date by which the CA will revoke the certificate.
> 
> The following motion has been proposed by  Wayne Thayer of Mozilla and 
> endorsed by Tim Hollebeek of DigiCert and Dimitris Zacharopoulos of Harica.
> 
> --- MOTION BEGINS ---
> 
> This ballot modifies the “Baseline Requirements 
> for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted Certificates” as follows, 
> based on Version 1.6.0:
> 
> ** Modify the definition of Key Compromise as follows: **
> Key Compromise: A Private Key is said to be compromised if its value has been 
> disclosed to an unauthorized person or an unauthorized person has had access 
> to it.
> 
> ** Modify Section 4.9.1 to read as follows: **
> 
> 4.9.1.1 Reasons for Revoking a Subscriber Certificate
> 
> The CA SHALL revoke a Certificate within 24 hours if one or more of the 
> following occurs:
> 1. The Subscriber requests in writing that the CA revoke the Certificate;
> 2. The Subscriber notifies the CA that the original certificate request was 
> not authorized and does not retroactively grant authorization;
> 3. The CA obtains evidence that the Subscriber's Private Key corresponding to 
> the Public Key in the Certificate suffered a Key Compromise; or
> 4. The CA obtains evidence that the validation of domain authorization or 
> control for any Fully-Qualified Domain Name or IP address in the Certificate 
> should not be relied upon.
> 
> The CA SHOULD revoke a certificate within 24 hours and MUST revoke a 
> Certificate within 5 days if one or more of the following occurs:
> 1. The Certificate no longer complies with the requirements of Sections 6.1.5 
> and 6.1.6;
> 2. The CA obtains evidence that the Certificate was misused;
> 3. The CA is made aware that a Subscriber has violated one or more of its 
> material obligations under the Subscriber Agreement or Terms of Use;
> 4. The CA is made aware of any circumstance indicating that use of a 
> Fully-Qualified Domain Name or IP address in the Certificate is no longer 
> legally permitted (e.g. a court or arbitrator has revoked a Domain Name 
> Registrant's right to use the Domain Name, a relevant licensing or services 
> agreement between the Domain Name Registrant and the Applicant has 
> terminated, or the Domain Name Registrant has failed to renew the Domain 
> Name);
> 5. The CA is made aware that a Wildcard Certificate has been used to 
> authenticate a fraudulently misleading subordinate Fully-Qualified Domain 
> Name;
> 6. The CA is made aware of a material change in the information contained in 
> the Certificate;
> 7. The CA is made aware that the Certificate was not issued in accordance 
> with these Requirements or the CA's Certificate Policy or Certification 
> Practice Statement;
> 8. The CA determines or is made aware that any of the information appearing 
> in the Certificate is inaccurate;
> 9. The CA's right to issue Certificates under these Requirements expires or 
> is revoked or terminated, unless the CA has made arrangements to continue 
> maintaining the CRL/OCSP Repository;
> 10. Revocation is required by the CA's Certificate Policy and/or 
> Certification Practice Statement; or
> 11. The CA is made aware of a demonstrated or proven method that exposes the 
> Subscriber's Private Key to compromise, methods have been developed that can 
> easily calculate it based on the Public Key (such as a Debian weak key, see 
> http://wiki.debian.org/SSLkeys <http://wiki.debian.org/SSLkeys>), or if there 
> is clear evidence that the specific method used to generate the Private Key 
> was flawed.
> 
> 4.9.1.2 Reasons for Revoking a Subordinate CA Certificate
> 
> The Issuing CA SHALL revoke a Subordinate CA Certificate within seven (7) 
> days if one or more of the following occurs:
> 1. The Subordinate CA requests revocation in writing;
> 2. The Subordinate CA notifies the Issuing CA that the original certificate 
> request was not authorized and does not retroactively grant authorization;
> 3. The Issuing CA obtains evidence that the Subordinate CA's Private Key 
> corresponding to the Public Key in the Certificate suffered a Key Compromise 
> or no longer complies with the requirements of Sections 6.1.5 and 6.1.6;
> 4. The Issuing CA obtains evidence that the Certificate was misused;
> 5. The Issuing CA is made aware that the Certificate was not issued in 
> accordance with or that Subordinate CA has not complied with this document or 
> the applicable Certificate Policy or Certification Practice Statement;
> 6. The Issuing CA determines that any of the information appearing in the 
> Certificate is inaccurate or misleading;
> 7. The Issuing CA or Subordinate CA ceases operations for any reason and has 
> not made arrangements for another CA to provide revocation support for the 
> Certificate;
> 8. The Issuing CA's or Subordinate CA's right to issue Certificates under 
> these Requirements expires or is revoked or terminated, unless the Issuing CA 
> has made arrangements to continue maintaining the CRL/OCSP Repository; or
> 9. Revocation is required by the Issuing CA's Certificate Policy and/or 
> Certification Practice Statement.
> 
> ** Modify section 4.9.3 as follows: **
> 
> 
> 
> The CA SHALL provide a process for Subscribers to request revocation of 
> their own Certificates. The process MUST be described in the CA's Certificate 
> Policy or Certification Practice Statement. The CA SHALL maintain a 
> continuous 24x7 ability to accept and respond to revocation requests and 
> Certificate Problem Reports.
> 
> The CA SHALL provide Subscribers, Relying Parties, Application Software 
> Suppliers, and other third parties with clear instructions for reporting 
> suspected Private Key Compromise, Certificate misuse, or other types of 
> fraud, compromise, misuse, inappropriate conduct, or any other matter related 
> to Certificates. The CA SHALL publicly disclose the instructions through a 
> readily accessible online means and in section 1.5.2 of their CPS.
> 
> ** Modify section 4.9.5 to read as follows: **
> 
> 
> 
> Within 24 hours after receiving a Certificate Problem Report, the CA 
> SHALL investigate the facts and circumstances related to a Certificate 
> Problem Report and provide a preliminary report on its findings to both the 
> Subscriber and the entity who filed the Certificate Problem Report.
> 
> After reviewing the facts and circumstances, the CA SHALL work with the 
> Subscriber and any entity reporting the Certificate Problem Report or other 
> revocation-related notice to establish whether or not the certificate will be 
> revoked, and if so, a date which the CA will revoke the certificate. The 
> period from receipt of the Certificate Problem Report or revocation-related 
> notice to published revocation MUST NOT exceed the time frame set forth in 
> Section 4.9.1.1. The date selected by the CA SHOULD consider the following 
> criteria:
> 1. The nature of the alleged problem (scope, context, severity, magnitude, 
> risk of harm);
> 2. The consequences of revocation (direct and collateral impacts to 
> Subscribers and Relying Parties);
> 3. The number of Certificate Problem Reports received about a particular 
> Certificate or Subscriber;
> 4. The entity making the complaint (for example, a complaint from a law 
> enforcement official that a Web site is engaged in illegal activities should 
> carry more weight than a complaint from a consumer alleging that she didn't 
> receive the goods she ordered); and
> 5. Relevant legislation.
> 
> --- MOTION ENDS ---
> 
> This ballot proposes a Final Maintenance Guideline.
> 
> 
> 
> A comparison of the changes can be found at: 
> https://github.com/cabforum/documents/compare/master...wthayer:patch-1 
> <https://github.com/cabforum/documents/compare/master...wthayer:patch-1>
> 
> The procedure for approval of this ballot is as follows:
> Discussion (7 days)
> Start Time: 2018-08-31  20:00 UTC
> End Time: 2018-09-07  20:00 UTC
> Vote for approval (7 days)
> Start Time: 2018-09-07  20:00 UTC
> End Time: 2018-09-14  20:00 UTC
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