CSC-20 passed

Ballot CSC-20: Restore Version Reference to EV Guidelines

Code Signing Certificate Working Group

Key dates

Effective date: 07 Dec 2023 2 years ago
Voting opened: 07 Dec 2023 2 years ago
IPR review ends: 07 Dec 2023 2 years ago
Discussion opened: 12 Oct 2023 2 years ago

Resources

⎇ GitHub diff https://github.com/cabforum/code-signing/compare/93ee9976cdc4e1104952146e3556800459694874...50b40d41319ffae5fec9c9dd22ae6ebb55c34ba1 https://github.com/cabforum/code-signing/compare/93ee9976cdc4e1104952146e3556800459694874…50b40d41319ffae5fec9c9dd22ae6ebb55c34ba1

± Redline https://cabforum.org/uploads/Baseline-Requirements-for-the-Issuance-and-Management-of-Code-Signing.v3.5_redline.pdf here

AI Summary

Generated 2026-06-23 21:26 UTC

Ballot overview

Ballot CSC-20 is titled Restore Version Reference to EV Guidelines.
It updates the Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted Code Signing Certificates, based on version 3.4, to restore a version reference to the Extended Validation Guidelines that had been removed in a previous version.
The ballot also resolves a minor typographical issue.

What changed

The redline changes the document subtitle from Version 3.4.0 to Version 3.5.0.
The redline adds a reference to Guidelines for the Issuance and Management of Extended Validation Certificates, Version 1.7.2.
The redline changes a requirement sentence to use stronger wording: CAs MUST NOT issue new or replacement Code Signing Certificates to an entity that the CA determined intentionally signed Suspect Code.

Voting and review outcome

The ballot has PASSED.
The IPR review period ended on December 7, 2023 and no exclusion notices were filed.
The final documents state that the effective date is 2023-12-07.

Compliance timing

The ballot’s effective date is 2023-12-07.
This date applies to the final documents made available after the IPR review period ended with no exclusion notices filed.

Model: gpt-5.4-mini Confidence: 0.98 Result: passed

Effective date: 2023-12-07
Voting opened: 2023-12-07
IPR review ends: 2023-12-07
Discussion opened: 2023-10-12

AI-generated from the CABF ballot page. The official CABF article remains the authoritative source.

Proposers

Corey Bonnell of DigiCert and endorsed by Bruce Morton of Entrust and Dimitris Zacharopoulos of HARICA.

Excerpt

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