Certificate Management Protocol (CMP) Updates
draft-ietf-lamps-cmp-updates-23

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Subject: Protocol Action: 'Certificate Management Protocol (CMP) Updates' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-lamps-cmp-updates-23.txt)

The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Certificate Management Protocol (CMP) Updates'
  (draft-ietf-lamps-cmp-updates-23.txt) as Proposed Standard

This document is the product of the Limited Additional Mechanisms for PKIX
and SMIME Working Group.

The IESG contact persons are Paul Wouters and Roman Danyliw.

A URL of this Internet Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-lamps-cmp-updates/

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Technical Summary

   This document contains a set of updates to the syntax and transfer of
   Certificate Management Protocol (CMP) version 2.  This document
   updates RFC 4210, RFC 5912, and RFC 6712.

   The aspects of CMP updated in this document are using EnvelopedData
   instead of EncryptedValue, clarifying the handling of p10cr messages,
   improving the crypto agility, as well as adding new general message
   types, extended key usages to identify certificates for use with CMP,
   and well-known URI path segments.

   To properly differentiate the support of EnvelopedData instead of
   EncryptedValue, the CMP version 3 is introduced in case a transaction
   is supposed to use EnvelopedData.

   CMP version 3 is introduced to enable signaling support of
   EnvelopedData instead of EncryptedValue and signaling the use of an
   explicit hash AlgorithmIdentifier in certConf messages, as far as
   needed.

Working Group Summary

There is consensus for this document in the LAMPS WG.

The scope of the changes made in the document was larger than was originally anticipated.

The "well-known" mechanism was refined after expert review. 

Document Quality

    Vendors with CMP implementations have indicated that they intend to
    support the updated syntax, and at least one open source effort is
    underway.

Personnel

    Russ Housley is the document shepherd.
    Roman Danyliw is the responsible area director.

RFC Editor Note