The application/pkcs10 Media Type
RFC 5967
| Document | Type |
RFC - Informational
(August 2010; No errata)
Updates RFC 2986
Was draft-turner-application-pkcs10-media-type (individual in sec area)
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| Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
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| IESG | IESG state | RFC 5967 (Informational) | |
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| Responsible AD | Tim Polk | ||
| Send notices to | housley@vigilsec.com | ||
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) S. Turner
Request for Comments: 5967 IECA
Updates: 2986 August 2010
Category: Informational
ISSN: 2070-1721
The application/pkcs10 Media Type
Abstract
This document specifies a media type used to carry PKCS #10
certification requests as defined in RFC 2986. It carries over the
original specification from RFC 2311, which recently has been moved
to Historic status, and properly links it to RFC 2986.
Status of This Memo
This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
published for informational purposes.
This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
received public review and has been approved for publication by the
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Not all documents
approved by the IESG are a candidate for any level of Internet
Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 5741.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
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1. Introduction
[RFC2311] first defined the application/pkcs10 media type. When
[RFC2633] was published, the application/pkcs10 section was dropped,
but for some reason the text was not incorporated into the PKCS #10
document [RFC2986]. [RFC2311] was moved to Historic status by
[RFC5751]. To ensure the IANA media type registration points to a
non-Historic document, this document updates [RFC2986] with the
definition of the application/pkcs10 media type and an IANA
registration based on [RFC4288].
The text for Section 2 is adapted from Section 3.7 of [RFC2311].
1.1. Requirements Terminology
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].
2. Creating a Certification Request
A typical application that allows a user to generate cryptographic
information has to submit that information to a Certification
Authority (CA), who transforms it into a certificate. PKCS #10
[RFC2986] describes a syntax for certification requests.
The details of certification requests and the process of obtaining a
certificate are beyond the scope of this memo. Instead, only the
format of data used in application/pkcs10 is defined.
2.1. Format of the application/pkcs10 Body
PKCS #10 defines the ASN.1 type CertificationRequest for use in
submitting a certification request. For transfer to a CA, this
abstract syntax needs to be encoded and identified in a unique
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manner. When the media type application/pkcs10 is used, the body
MUST be a CertificationRequest.
A robust application SHOULD output Distinguished Encoding Rules
(DER), but allow Basic Encoding Rules (BER) or DER on input.
Data produced by BER or DER is 8-bit, but some transports are limited
to 7-bit data. In such cases, a suitable 7-bit transfer encoding
MUST be applied; in MIME-compatible transports, the base64 encoding
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