A Referee to Authenticate Servers in Local Domains
draft-wing-settle-referee-01
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| Author | Dan Wing | ||
| Last updated | 2025-12-31 (Latest revision 2025-06-29) | ||
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Abstract
Obtaining and maintaining PKI certificates for devices in a local domain network is difficult for both technical and human factors reasons. This document describes an alternative approach to securely identify and authenticate servers in the local domain using a HTTPS- based trust anchor system, called a Referee. The Referee allows bootstrapping a network of devices by trusting only the Referee trust anchor in the local domain.
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