Concluded WG Credential and Provisioning (enroll)

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WG Name Credential and Provisioning
Acronym enroll
Area Security Area (sec)
State Concluded
Charter charter-ietf-enroll-01 Approved
Document dependencies
Personnel Chairs Eric Rescorla, Eric Rescorla, Paul E. Hoffman
Tech Advisor Donald E. Eastlake 3rd
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Final Charter for Working Group

There are many cases where a service consumer needs to contact a
service provider to get credentials that the consumer can use when
accessing the service; part of this initial contact may involve
the consumer and the provider mutually validating the other's
identity.
This working group will look at some of the cases where cryptography
is used to provide authentication.

When doing enrollment of a service consumer against a service
provider, three pieces of information need to be provided or created
in
order to support authentication of the service consumer to the service
provider (and visa versa) and to allow for additional security
services
to be provided any information exchanged. These pieces of data are:

  1. An identifier, within a namespace controlled by the service
    provider, for the service consumer.
  2. Keying information to be used for identity confirmation.
  3. A set of service consumer permissions. These permissions
    describe to the provider the services that the consumer
    wants to access, and they describe to the consumer what
    services offered by the provider will be accessable.

Each of these data items could be created by either the consumer or
provider at any point during the enrollment process.

This group will create a model to be used in describing enrollment
procedures and create a document for a framework how this is to be
done. The group will then produce three documents profiling the use of
the framework for the following types of keying material:

  1. A shared secret key.
  2. A bare asymmetric key.
  3. A bound asymmetric key (such as an X.509 certificate).

As part of the validation of the framework, the group will examine how
other real world enrollment procedures could be profiled. For example,
credit card information might be part of the input to the enrollment
process.

Milestones

Date Milestone Associated documents
Dec 2005 Last call on profile document(s)
May 2005 Last call on model document
Mar 2005 First draft of profile document(s)
Sep 2004 First WG draft of model document