The Certification Authority Browser Forum (CA/Browser Forum) is a voluntary gathering of Certificate Issuers and suppliers of Internet browser software and other applications that use certificates (Certificate Consumers). More information for about the forum and information for Site Owners, Developers, Auditors and Assessors, and Potential Members can be found in the About section of this website. Recent posts Ballot SC-088v3: DNS TXT Record with Persistent Value DCV Method October 9, 2025 by...| CA/Browser Forum
Ballot SC-088v3: DNS TXT Record with Persistent Value DCV Method Voting Results Certificate Issuers 26 votes in total:| All CA/Browser Forum Posts on CA/Browser Forum
Meeting Date: 2025-09-11 Attendees: Aaron Gable (Let’s Encrypt), Aaron Poulsen (Amazon), Adam Jones (Microsoft), Adrian Mueller (SwissSign), Ben Wilson (Mozilla), Brianca Martin (Amazon), Bruce Morton (Entrust), Chris Clements (Google), Clint Wilson (Apple), Corey Bonnell (DigiCert), Corey Rasmussen (OATI), Daryn Wright (Apple), Dean Coclin (DigiCert), Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA), Enrico Entschew (D-TRUST), Eric Kramer (Sectigo), Gregory Tomko (GlobalSign), Hogeun Yoo (NAVER Cloud Trust...| All CA/Browser Forum Posts on CA/Browser Forum
Minutes of the Server Certificate Working Group teleconference - September 11, 2025 Meeting Date: 2025-09-11 Note Well: Read by Dimitris Zacharopoulos. Review of Agenda: No additions or changes. Approval of Minutes: July 17, 2025 Teleconference (Draft minutes were distributed on 2025-09-01) approved.| All CA/Browser Forum Posts on CA/Browser Forum
Minutes of SMCWG August 27, 2025 These are the Minutes of the meeting described in the subject of this message. Corrections and clarifications where needed are encouraged by reply.| All CA/Browser Forum Posts on CA/Browser Forum
Minutes of SMCWG July 30, 2025 These are the Minutes of the meeting described in the subject of this message. Corrections and clarifications where needed are encouraged by reply.| All CA/Browser Forum Posts on CA/Browser Forum
Minutes of SMCWG July 16, 2025 These are the Minutes of the meeting described in the subject of this message. Corrections and clarifications where needed are encouraged by reply.| CA/Browser Forum
CA/B Forum Teleconference - 2025-08-28 1. Roll Call For attendance, see Item 15 below. 2. Review of Agenda The agenda was reviewed. One additional item was added under Any Other Business: the notice from Buypass CA regarding the cessation of TLS issuance. 3. Approval of Minutes Minutes of 31 July 2025 plenary, prepared by Aaron Gable, were approved without objection. Minutes of 17 July 2025, prepared by Scott Rea, are still being finalized. Minutes of 10 April 2025, which were to be prepared ...| All CA/Browser Forum Posts on CA/Browser Forum
Final Minutes – Server Certificate Working Group Teleconference (28 August 2025) 1. Roll Call For attendance, see Item 11 below.| All CA/Browser Forum Posts on CA/Browser Forum
Minutes of the CA/BF ServerCert Working Group, 2025-07-31 Administrivia Minutes taken by Aaron Gable Recording started Attendance taken by Webex Note-well read by Wayne Thayer Agenda (shared by Dmitris Zacharopoulos) approved Prior minutes 2025-04-10 teleconference (taken by Trevoli Ponds-White): approved 2025-07-17 teleconference (taken by Scott Rea): not yet distributed Membership applications Joshua Garrett approved as individual Interested Party Ballot Status In discussion period SC086: S...| All CA/Browser Forum Posts on CA/Browser Forum
CA/B Forum Teleconference - 2025-07-17 Meeting Title: CA/Browser Forum Date: 17 July 2025 Chair: Dean Coclin Minutes Taken By: Scott Rea 1. Roll Call and Housekeeping Meeting called to order by Dean Coclin with support from Tim Callan; recording in process. 2. Note-well Note-well has already been read in previous session. 3. Review Agenda Agenda anticipated as posted. 4. Approval of Minutes None to approve on today’s call April 10th - still pending (Dean to re-send link to Aaron Poulsen) F2...| All CA/Browser Forum Posts on CA/Browser Forum
Meeting Title: CA/Browser Forum Server Certificate Working Group Date: 17 July 2025 Meeting Ran By: Wayne Thayer Minutes Taken By: Scott Rea 1. Roll Call and Housekeeping Meeting called to order by Wayne Thayer.| All CA/Browser Forum Posts on CA/Browser Forum
Ballot FORUM-036 – Adopt Invited Experts Policy The voting period for Forum-036 Adopt Invited Experts Policy has completed. The ballot has: PASSED| CA/Browser Forum
CA/B Forum Teleconference - 2025-06-10Meeting Title: CA/Browser Forum Toronto F2F Date: 10 June 2025 Chair: Dean Coclin Guest speaker: Chrome’s views on PQCPresenter: David Adrian Presentation Link: https://cabforum.org/2025/06/10/2025-06-10-minutes-of-the-forum-toronto-f2f/Chrome_PQC_CABF_F2F_Toronto_2025_EXTERNAL.pdf Guest speaker: The Future of ZLintPresenter: Zakir Durumeric Presentation Link: https://cabforum.org/2025/06/10/2025-06-10-minutes-of-the-forum-toronto-f2f/The_Future_of_ZLin...| CA/Browser Forum
Ballot SMC014: DNSSEC for CAASummary: This ballot introduces requirements that a Certificate Issuer MUST deploy DNSSEC validation back to the IANA DNSSEC root trust anchor on all DNS queries associated with CAA record lookups performed by the Primary Network Perspective, effective March 15, 2026.| CA/Browser Forum
Code Signing Certificate Working Group Meeting Minutes – July 10th, 2025 Note Well The Note Well was read.| All CA/Browser Forum Posts on CA/Browser Forum
Certificate Signing Certificate Working Group (CSCWG) – Meeting Minutes Date: June 26, 2025 Note Well The Note Well was read.| All CA/Browser Forum Posts on CA/Browser Forum
These are the Final Minutes of the CSCWG F2F Meeting as prepared by Brianca Martin. Martijn read the Antitrust statement. Adopted agenda as presented. Discussion topics Discussion Topic: Migration to a single profile Microsoft introduced this topic 1 year ago. Are there specific items that we want to bring to a single profile? Karina from Microsoft: Need to understand where the line is we want to draw. Goal is to keep them closer to EV, uplevel all code signing certificates to keep as much id...| All CA/Browser Forum Posts on CA/Browser Forum
SCWG Minutes on Day 2 Wednesday, 11 June 2025, of the F2F 64 Meeting in Toronto, Canada Attendance Wayne Thayer (Fastly), Dean Coclin (DigiCert), Tim Callan (Sectigo), Enrico Entschew (D-Trust), Andreas Henschel (D-Trust), JinHwan Shin (Deloitte KOREA), Masatoshi Shigaki (KPMG Japan),, Brian Hsiung (Sunrise CPA), Adam Frock (BDO), Yannick Thomassier (Certinomis), Tadahiko Ito (Secoom), Fumiaki Ono (Secom), Chris Clements (Chrome), Ryan Dickson (Chrome), David Adrian (Chrome), Josselin Alleman...| All CA/Browser Forum Posts on CA/Browser Forum
Certificate Signing Certificate Working Group (CSCWG) – Meeting Minutes Date: May 29, 2025 1. Antitrust Reminder Martijn read the Note Well| All CA/Browser Forum Posts on CA/Browser Forum
CA/B Forum Server Certificate WG Teleconference-20250410Meeting Title: CA/Browser Forum Server Certificate Working Group Date: 10 April 2025 Meeting Ran By: Wayne Thayer Minutes Taken By: Trevoli Ponds-White 1. Roll Call and Housekeeping Meeting called to order by Wayne Thayer.| CA/Browser Forum
Minutes of SMCWG July 2, 2025 These are the Minutes of the meeting described in the subject of this message. Corrections and clarifications where needed are encouraged by reply.| All CA/Browser Forum Posts on CA/Browser Forum
IPR Review of Ballot NS-008v3: Updates to CA Infrastructure Scope, Trusted Roles, Systems’ Applicability, and various other improvements This Review Notice is sent pursuant to Section 4.1 of the CA/Browser Forum’s Intellectual Property Rights Policy (v1.3). This Review Period of 30 days is for one Final Maintenance Guidelines. The complete Draft Maintenance Guideline that is the subject of this Review Notice is:| CA/Browser Forum
Ballot SMC013: Enable PQC Algorithms for S/MIME Summary: This ballot introduces specifications for the use of two post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithms, as standardized by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in the S/MIME BR: ML-DSA, or Module-Lattice-Based Digital Signature Algorithm, a digital signature scheme; and ML-KEM, or Module-Lattice-Based Key-Encapsulation Mechanism, a key encapsulation mechanism. The ballot specifies single-key/non-hybrid PQC certif...| CA/Browser Forum
CA/B Forum Teleconference - 2025-05-22 Meeting Title: CA/Browser Forum Date: 22 May 2025 Chair: Dean Coclin --- 1. Roll Call and Housekeeping Meeting called to order by Dean Coclin; recording in process. 2. Note-well Note-well has already been read. 3. Review Agenda No changes to the agenda. 4. Approval of Minutes April 10th - still pending May 8th - minutes approved. 5. Server Certificate Working Group update (Dimitris) SCWG Wayne said SC81 passed IPR review period, and new version after fix...| All CA/Browser Forum Posts on CA/Browser Forum
CA/B Forum Server Certificate WG Teleconference-20250522 Meeting Title: CA/Browser Forum Server Certificate WG Date: 22 May 2025 Chair: Wayne Thayer on belalf of Dimitris Zacharopoulos Minutes Taken By: Lynn Jeun 1. Roll Call Meeting called to order by Wayne Thayer; Begin recording.| All CA/Browser Forum Posts on CA/Browser Forum
Minutes of SMCWG May 21, 2025 These are the Minutes of the meeting described in the subject of this message. Corrections and clarifications where needed are encouraged by reply.| CA/Browser Forum
Ballot SMC012: Introduce ACME for S/MIME Summary: This ballot introduces a new method for validation of mailbox control, using ACME for S/MIME as defined in RFC 8823: Extensions to Automatic Certificate Management Environment for End-User S/MIME Certificates. Although similar to the existing method (3.2.2.2) “Validating control over mailbox via email”, ACME for S/MIME has been defined in a new method in order to better describe how a CA’s ACME server may respond to a POST request by sen...| All CA/Browser Forum Posts on CA/Browser Forum
