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

[Tom Zermeno]

Hello Dimitris,

 

As I read the definition of “Linting”, it seems that the use of a manual (human reviewed) process is within the allowed methodologies.  I think more clarity should be added to require an automated/software linting process over a possible human-reviewed process, if not for all certificates, then at least for subscriber certs. 

Regards,

 

Tom

SSL.com

 

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

 


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://github.com/cabforum/servercert/pull/518> . 


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 


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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