Re: [pkix] Derived Credentials. Was: Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol (SCEP)

Johannes Merkle <johannes.merkle@secunet.com> Wed, 12 November 2014 17:42 UTC

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Subject: Re: [pkix] Derived Credentials. Was: Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol (SCEP)
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Anders Rundgren wrote on 12.11.2014 10:25:
> On 2014-11-12 10:03, Max Pritikin (pritikin) wrote:
>> Anders - both of these requirements can be met by these protocols.
> 
> AFAICT, end-to-end security with respect to the *key-container* is outside of all
> PKIX enrollment protocols.  No CMS (Card Management System) use CMP, SCEP, EST
> directly, they use other protocols for actual token provisioning/initialization.
> 

This is not correct. I have participated in the implementation of two Card Management Systems that use CMP for smart
card initialization and provisioning. Both are operative, the first one managing over 8 million cards, the second one
over 60.000.



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Johannes