Re: [Anima] [lamps] Long-lived certificates, but frequently renewed certificates

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Sat, 20 March 2021 20:37 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Anima] [lamps] Long-lived certificates, but frequently renewed certificates
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On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 08:22:44PM +0100, Eliot Lear wrote:
> > On 18 Mar 2021, at 19:58, Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> wrote:
> > A pity that EST (and I think SCEP, but I haven't read it all), just returns
> > the resulting certificate, and not something more useful, like a JSON dict
> > that includes the certificate.
> > 
> > RFC7030 has a 202, Retry-After, which could be used to tell the holder to
> > go away and come back later, but the intended use is not to say not now,
> > but rather, "I'm working on it".
> 
> This is definitely a problem in a number of deployments.  One aspect
> that people have to deal with is not so much the gross expiry time,
> but when it is convenient to take a risk of moving to a new cert.  Of
> course you’re going to want to make that operation as bullet-proof as
> possible, but in some environments they want multiple levels of
> resilience.  So scheduling does become an issue.

Can you elaborate on this?  Is the issue validation path construction in
complex PKIs?

Nico
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