SwissSign votes 'No' on Ballot SC-59 v2 "Weak Key Guidance"

Mike

Von: Servercert-wg <[email protected]> Im Auftrag von Tom 
Zermeno via Servercert-wg
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 6. Juli 2023 18:18
An: Infrastructure Bot via Servercert-wg <[email protected]>
Betreff: [Servercert-wg] Voting Period Begins - Ballot SC-59 v2 "Weak Key 
Guidance"


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/a0360b61e73476959220dc328e3b68d0224fa0b3...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

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