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 SMC014: DNSSEC for CAA August 15, 2025 by Stephen Davidsoon Ballot S/MIME Ba...| 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
Voting Results Certificate Issuers 30 votes in total:| All CA/Browser Forum Posts on 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
Certificate Signing Certificate Working Group (CSCWG) – Meeting Minutes Date: May 15, 2025 1. Antitrust Reminder Martijn Katerbarg 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
Minutes of SMCWG June 12, 2025 (Day 3 of F2F #65 in Toronto)| 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
Voting Results Certificate Issuers 25 votes in total:| All CA/Browser Forum Posts on 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
1. Roll Call and Housekeeping Meeting called to order by Dimitris Zacharopoulos.| 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
CA/B Forum and Server Certificate WG Teleconference - 2025-05-08 Meeting Title: CA/Browser Forum Date: 8 May 2025 Chair: Dean Coclin Minutes Taken By: Wayne Thayer --- 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 (Trev) - these are still pending. April 24th (Thomas) - have been posted to the management list; minutes approved....| All CA/Browser Forum Posts on CA/Browser Forum
Minutes of SMCWG May 7, 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
Roll Call and Housekeeping Meeting called to order by Dean; recording in process Roll taken by recording Note-well Note-well has already been read Review Agenda Begin Recording - Roll Call Read note-well Review of Agenda Approval of minutes: April 10th and F2F. Server Certificate Working Group update (Dimitris) Code Signing Certificate Working Group update (Martijn) S/MIME Certificate Working Group update (Stephen) NetSec Working Group update (Clint) Definitions and Glossary Working Group (Ti...| All CA/Browser Forum Posts on CA/Browser Forum
1. Roll Call and Housekeeping Meeting called to order by Dimitris Zacharopoulos. Tom to take minutes; recording sent to him. Attendees: Aaron Gable (Let’s Encrypt), Aaron Poulsen (Amazon), Ben Wilson (Mozilla), Bruce Morton (Entrust), Chad Dandar (Cisco Systems), Chris Clements (Google), Clint Wilson (Apple), Corey Bonnell (DigiCert), Corey Rasmussen (OATI), Cynethia Brown (US Federal PKI Management Authority), Dean Coclin (DigiCert), Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA), Doug Beattie (GlobalSig...| All CA/Browser Forum Posts on CA/Browser Forum
Minutes of SMCWG April 23, 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 CSCWG April 17, 2025 These are the approved minutes of the CSCWG meeting of April 17th, 2025 as prepared by Martijn Katerbarg| All CA/Browser Forum Posts on CA/Browser Forum
Voting Results Certificate Issuers 30 votes in total:| All CA/Browser Forum Posts on CA/Browser Forum
Minutes of SMCWG April 9, 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
The Intellectual Property Review (IPR) period for Ballot SMC011 (Add EUID as Registration Reference) has completed. No IPR Exclusion Notices were filed, and the ballot is adopted as of May 14, 2025. The new S/MIME BR v.1.0.9 have been published to the CABF public website in accordance with the Bylaws: https://cabforum.org/uploads/CA-Browser-Forum-SMIMEBR-1.0.9.pdf IPR Review of Ballot SMC011: Add EUID as Registration Reference This Review Notice is sent pursuant to Section 4.1 of the CA/Brows...| All CA/Browser Forum Posts on CA/Browser Forum
Minutes of CSCWG F2F March 27, 2025| All CA/Browser Forum Posts on CA/Browser Forum