Ballot CSC-12 – CRL Revocation Date Clarification

Ballot overview

• Ballot CSC-12, CRL Revocation Date Clarification, is a Code Signing Certificate Working Group ballot.
• It updates the Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted Code Signing Certificates version 2.5.

What the ballot changes

• Clarifies that CAs shall use the CRL revocationDate field to denote when a certificate first became invalid, even if that time precedes issuance of the latest CRL.
• Clarifies that if a CA becomes aware of a more appropriate revocation date for a revoked Code Signing Certificate, the CA may include that date in subsequently issued CRLs and OCSP responses for that certificate.
• The motion says the redline includes:
  • Adding the effective date of the CRL profile change in section 1.3.
  • Modifying the third paragraph of section 13.2.1.
  • Adding two paragraphs after the third paragraph of section 13.2.1.
  • Adding an explanatory footnote to the bottom of the last page of section 13.2.1.

Results

• The ballot has PASSED.
• The review period has ended and no exclusion notices were filed.

Dates

• The final documents state the effective date is 2021-12-03.