Ballot 132 – EV Code Signing Timestamp Validity Period (passed)

Ballot overview

• Ballot 132, EV Code Signing Timestamp Validity Period, amended the EV Code Signing Guidelines.
• The motion replaced one hundred and twenty three months with one hundred and thirty five months in Sections 8.2.1 and 9.4, in three places in each section.
• The ballot text says the change was intended to align TSA-related validity periods across uses and to extend the period for automatic validation of time-stamped code and other objects.

What changed

• In Section 8.2.1, the text was revised so that a code signature may be treated as valid for up to one hundred and thirty five months by the Timestamp method or the Signing Authority method.
• Under the Timestamp method, the EV Timestamp Authority certificate may be up to one hundred and thirty five months in the future.
• Under the Signing Authority method, the Signing Authority certificate may be up to one hundred and thirty five months in the future.
• In Section 9.4, the maximum validity period for EV Timestamp Certificates and EV Code Signing Certificates issued to Signing Authorities was revised to one hundred and thirty five months.
• The validity period for an EV Code Signing Certificate issued to a Subscriber remained not to exceed thirty-nine months.

Voting and status

• Voting on the ballot closed on 16 September 2014.
• The page states there were no votes against and no abstentions.
• The page explicitly says the ballot passed.

Dates

• The review period was scheduled to commence at 2100 UTC on Tuesday, 2 September 2014 and close at 2100 UTC on Tuesday, 9 September 2014.
• The voting period was scheduled to start immediately thereafter and close at 2100 UTC on Tuesday, 16 September 2014.
• The ballot page states voting closed 16 September 2014.
• The ballot page does not state an explicit implementation or compliance effective date.