Technical Summary
This document specifies the Simple Certificate Enrolment Protocol (SCEP),
a PKI protocol that leverages existing technology by using CMS (formerly
known as PKCS #7) and PKCS #10 over HTTP. SCEP is the evolution of
the enrollment protocol sponsored by Cisco Systems, which enjoys wide
support in client and server implementations, as well as being relied upon
by numerous other industry standards that work with certificates.
Working Group Summary
The document was not considered by any WG. The primary source of
controversy related to classification as Standards track, which despite
very wide spread use was perceived by some as detracting from
the several other standards track enrollment protocol specifications.
Document Quality
There are many existing implementations of the protocol with a significant
number and variety of vendors providing server or client implementations.
Personnel
Carl Wallace is the Document Shepherd.
Alexey Melnikov is the Responsible Area Director.
RFC Editor Note
RFC Editor Note
Please add the following text to the end of Section 1:
Note that SCEP doesn't follow best current practices on usage of
HTTP. In particular it recommends ignoring some Media Types and
hardcodes specific URI paths. Guidance on the appropriate
application of HTTP in these circumstances may be found in [16].