Updates to the Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile
RFC 6818
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RFC - Proposed Standard
(January 2013; No errata)
Updates RFC 5280
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| Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) P. Yee
Request for Comments: 6818 AKAYLA
Updates: 5280 January 2013
Category: Standards Track
ISSN: 2070-1721
Updates to the Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure
Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile
Abstract
This document updates RFC 5280, the "Internet X.509 Public Key
Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL)
Profile". This document changes the set of acceptable encoding
methods for the explicitText field of the user notice policy
qualifier and clarifies the rules for converting internationalized
domain name labels to ASCII. This document also provides some
clarifications on the use of self-signed certificates, trust anchors,
and some updated security considerations.
Status of This Memo
This is an Internet Standards Track document.
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). Further information on
Internet Standards is available in 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
http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6818.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ....................................................2
1.1. Terminology ................................................3
2. Update to RFC 5280, Section 3.2: "Certification Paths and Trust" 3
3. Update to RFC 5280, Section 4.2.1.4: "Certificate Policies" .....3
4. Update to RFC 5280, Section 6.2: "Using the Path Validation
Algorithm" ......................................................4
5. Update to RFC 5280, Section 7.3: "Internationalized
Domain Names in Distinguished Names" ............................5
6. Security Considerations .........................................5
7. Update to RFC 5280, Section 11.1: "Normative References" ........7
8. Update to RFC 5280, Section 11.2: "Informative References" ......7
9. References ......................................................7
9.1. Normative References .......................................7
9.2. Informative References .....................................7
10. Acknowledgements ................................................8
1. Introduction
This document updates the "Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure
Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile" [RFC5280].
This document makes a recommendation that self-signed certificates
used to convey trust anchor data be marked as certificate authority
(CA) certificates, which is not always current practice.
The use of self-signed certificates as trust anchors in Section 6.2
of [RFC5280] is clarified. While it is optional to use additional
information in these certificates in the path validation process,
[RFC5937] is noted as providing guidance in that regard.
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The acceptable and unacceptable encodings for the explicitText field
of the user notice policy qualifier are updated to bring them in line
with existing practice.
The rules in Section 7.3 of [RFC5280] for ASCII encoding of
Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) as Distinguished Names are
aligned with the rules in Section 7.2 of that document that govern
IDN encoding as GeneralNames.
In light of some observed attacks [Prins], the Security
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