TrustAsia votes YES on Ballot SC-067 V3.

Best regards,
Rollin Yu





> On Jul 15, 2024, at 23:29, Chris Clements via Servercert-wg 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Purpose of Ballot SC-067 V3:
> 
> This Ballot proposes updates to the Baseline Requirements for the Issuance 
> and Management of Publicly-Trusted TLS Server Certificates (i.e., TLS BRs) 
> related to “Multi-Perspective Issuance Corroboration” (“MPIC”).
> 
> Background:
> 
> - MPIC refers to performing domain validation and CAA checks from multiple 
> Network Perspectives before certificate issuance, as described within the 
> Ballot for the applicable validation methods in TLS BR Sections 3.2.2.4 and 
> 3.2.2.5.
> - Not all methods described in TLS BR Sections 3.2.2.4 and 3.2.2.5 will 
> require using MPIC.
> - This work was most recently motivated by research presented at Face-to-Face 
> 58 [1] by Princeton University, but has been discussed for years prior as 
> well.
> - The goal of this proposal is to make it more difficult for adversaries to 
> successfully launch equally-specific prefix attacks against the domain 
> validation processes described in the TLS BRs.
> - Additional background information can be found in an update shared at 
> Face-to-Face 60 [2].
> 
> Benefits of Adoption:
> 
> - Recent publicly-documented attacks have used BGP hijacks to fool domain 
> control validation and obtain malicious certificates, which led to the 
> impersonation of HTTPS websites [3][4].
> - Routing security defenses (e.g., RPKI) can mitigate the risk of global BGP 
> attacks, but localized, equally-specific BGP attacks still pose a significant 
> threat to the Web PKI [5][6].
> - Corroborating domain control validation checks from multiple network 
> perspectives (i.e., MPIC) spread across the Internet substantially reduces 
> the threat posed by equally-specific BGP attacks, ensuring the integrity of 
> domain validation and issuance decisions [5][7][8].
> - Existing deployments of MPIC at the scale of millions of certificates a day 
> demonstrate the feasibility of this technique at Internet scale [7][9].
> 
> Intellectual Property (IP) Disclosure:
> 
> - While not a Server Certificate Working Group Member, researchers from 
> Princeton University presented at Face-to-Face 58, provided academic 
> expertise, and highlighted publicly-available peer-reviewed research to 
> support Members in drafting this ballot.
> - The Princeton University researchers indicate that they have not filed for 
> any patents relating to their MPIC work and do not plan to do so in the 
> future.
> - Princeton University has indicated that it is unable to agree to the 
> CA/Browser Forum IPR agreement because it could encumber inventions invented 
> by researchers not involved in the development of MPIC or with the CA/B Forum.
> - Princeton University has instead provided the attached IPR statement. 
> Pursuant to the IPR statement, Princeton University has granted a worldwide 
> royalty free license to the intellectual property in MPIC developed by the 
> researchers and has made representations regarding its lack of knowledge of 
> any other Princeton intellectual property needed to implement MPIC.
> - The attached IPR statement has not changed since disclosed in Discussion 
> Round 1.
> - For clarity, Princeton University’s IPR statement is NOT intended to 
> replace the Forum’s IPR agreement or allow Princeton to participate in the 
> Forum in any capacity.
> - Members seeking legal advice regarding this ballot should consult their own 
> counsel.
> 
> Proposal Revision History:
> 
> - Pre-Ballot Release #1 (work team artifacts and broader Validation 
> Subcommittee collaboration) [10]
> - Pre-Ballot Release #2 [11]
> 
> Previous versions of this Ballot:
> 
> - Ballot Release #1 [12] (comparing Version 2 to Version 1) [13]. Note, some 
> of the changes represented in the comparison are updates made by other 
> ballots that have since passed (e.g., SC-069).
> - Ballot Release #2 [14] (comparing Version 3 to Version 2) [15]. Note, some 
> of the changes represented in the comparison are updates made by other 
> ballots that have since passed (e.g., SC-072).
> 
> References:
> [1] 
> https://cabforum.org/wp-content/uploads/13-CAB-Forum-face-to-face-multiple-vantage-points.pdf
> [2] 
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LTwtAwHXcSaPVSsqKQztNJrV2ozHJ7ZL/view?usp=drive_link
>  
> [3] 
> https://medium.com/s2wblog/post-mortem-of-klayswap-incident-through-bgp-hijacking-en-3ed7e33de600
>  
> [4] https://www.coinbase.com/blog/celer-bridge-incident-analysis 
> [5] 
> https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity23/presentation/cimaszewski  
> [6] 
> https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-15/materials/us-15-Gavrichenkov-Breaking-HTTPS-With-BGP-Hijacking-wp.pdf
>  
> [7] https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity21/presentation/birge-lee 
> [8] https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity18/presentation/birge-lee 
> [9] 
> https://security.googleblog.com/2023/05/google-trust-services-acme-api_0503894189.html
>  
> [10] https://github.com/ryancdickson/staging/pull/6 
> [11] https://github.com/ryancdickson/staging/pull/8 
> [12] https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/pull/487 
> [13] 
> https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/6d10abda8980c6eb941987d3fc26e753e62858c0..5224983ef0a6f94c18808ea3469e7a5ae35746e5
> [14] https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/pull/507 
> [15] 
> https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/5224983ef0a6f94c18808ea3469e7a5ae35746e5..2dcf1a8fe5fc7b6a864b5767ab1db718bc447463
> 
> The following motion has been proposed by Chris Clements and Ryan Dickson of 
> Google (Chrome Root Program) and endorsed by Aaron Gable (ISRG / Let’s 
> Encrypt) and Wayne Thayer (Fastly). 
> 
> — Motion Begins —
> 
> This ballot modifies the “Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and 
> Management of Publicly-Trusted TLS Server Certificates” (“Baseline 
> Requirements”), based on Version 2.0.4.
> 
> MODIFY the Baseline Requirements as specified in the following Redline:
> https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/c4a34fe2292022e0a04ba66b5a85df75907ac2a2..2dcf1a8fe5fc7b6a864b5767ab1db718bc447463
>  
> 
> 
> — Motion Ends —
> 
> This ballot proposes a Final Maintenance Guideline. The procedure for 
> approval of this ballot is as follows:
> 
> Discussion (57 days)
> - Start: 2024-05-20 14:30:00 UTC
> - End: 2024-07-15 15:29:59 UTC
> 
> Vote for approval (7 days)
> - Start: 2024-07-15 15:30:00 UTC
> - End: 2024-07-22 15:30:00 UTC
> 
> <Princeton MPIC Commitment - final draft 2024.01.11 
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