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X.509 Certificate General-Purpose Extended Key Usage (EKU) for Document Signing
RFC 9336

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2026-05-20
(System) Changed metadata: changed keywords to '['X.509', 'KeyPurposeIds', 'Key Purpose Identifier', 'Document Signing']' from '[]'
2026-05-20
(System) Metadata update from RFC Editor
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "S. Turner": changed name from "Sean Turner" to "S. Turner"
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "T. Okubo": changed name from "Tomofumi Okubo" to "T. Okubo"
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "T. Ito": changed name from "Tadahiko Ito" to "T. Ito", changed affiliation from "SECOM CO., LTD." to "SECOM CO. LTD."
2026-05-20
(System) Metadata update from RFC Editor
2022-12-20
(System)
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 9336, changed title to 'X.509 Certificate General-Purpose Extended Key Usage (EKU) for Document Signing', changed …
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 9336, changed title to 'X.509 Certificate General-Purpose Extended Key Usage (EKU) for Document Signing', changed abstract to 'RFC 5280 specifies several extended key purpose identifiers (KeyPurposeIds) for X.509 certificates.  This document defines a general-purpose Document-Signing KeyPurposeId for inclusion in the Extended Key Usage (EKU) extension of X.509 public key certificates.  Document-Signing applications may require that the EKU extension be present and that a Document-Signing KeyPurposeId be indicated in order for the certificate to be acceptable to that Document-Signing application.', changed standardization level to Proposed Standard, changed state to RFC, added RFC published event at 2022-12-20, changed IESG state to RFC Published)
2022-12-20
(System) RFC published