JPRS votes NO to Ballot SC-59 v2. Like some others commented, we think it would be more beneficial to continue discussion on "Weak Key Guidance" for the stability of BR.
-- Yoshiro YONEYA <[email protected]> On Thu, 6 Jul 2023 16:17:39 +0000 Tom Zermeno via Servercert-wg <[email protected]> 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/a0360b61e73476959220dc328e3b > 68d0224fa0b3...SSLcom:servercert:958e6ccac857b826fead6e4bd06d58f4fdd7fa7a> > https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/a0360b61e73476959220dc328e3b6 > 8d0224fa0b3...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 > > > _______________________________________________ Servercert-wg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.cabforum.org/mailman/listinfo/servercert-wg
