Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-pkix-ipki3cmp-08.txt

Bob Masters <rmasters@bbn.com> Tue, 26 May 1998 18:18 UTC

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Carlisle,

Page 20 of CMP contains the statement "specification of external protection
using PKCS #7 will be provided in a separate document."  What is this separate
document?  I have looked at CMC, but it does not seem to be compatible with CMP.

Thanks for any help you can give me on this.

Bob Masters
GTE Internetworking

Carlisle Adams wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> For those that are curious, the PKIX-CMP draft has been updated to
> accommodate a change that was necessary for its companion draft CRMF.  The
> request message in CRMF was missing a way to carry an AlgId in one of the
> choices for proof-of-possession syntax (the syntax was borrowed from CMP,
> which didn't need to carry the AlgId because it explicitly used the one
> specified in PKIHeader, but since CRMF does not necessarily have a PKIHeader
> the extra AlgId needed to be included).
>
> The syntax change is on p.26, where publicKeyMAC is now a PKMACValue
> (instead of a BIT STRING), and PKMACValue (defined in CRMF) is a sequence of
> AlgId and BIT STRING.
>
> --------------------------------------------
> Carlisle Adams
> Entrust Technologies
> cadams@entrust.com
> --------------------------------------------
>
> > ----------
> > From:         Internet-Drafts@ietf.org[SMTP:Internet-Drafts@ietf.org]
> > Sent:         Tuesday, May 26, 1998 10:16 AM
> > To:   IETF-Announce
> > Cc:   ietf-pkix@imc.org
> > Subject:      I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-pkix-ipki3cmp-08.txt
> >
> > A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
> > directories.
> > This draft is a work item of the Public-Key Infrastructure (X.509) Working
> > Group
> > of the IETF.
> >
> >       Title           : Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure
> > Certificate
> >                           Management Protocols
> >       Author(s)       : C. Adams, S. Farrell
> >       Filename        : draft-ietf-pkix-ipki3cmp-08.txt
> >       Pages           : 67
> >       Date            : 22-May-98
> >
> > This document describes the Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure
> > (PKI) Certificate Management Protocols. Protocol messages are defined
> > for all relevant aspects of certificate creation and management.  Note
> > that 'certificate' in this document refers to an X.509v3 Certificate as
> > defined in [COR95, X509-AM].
> >

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-pkix-ipki3cmp-08.txt Bob Masters
RE: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-pkix-ipki3cmp-08.txt Carlisle Adams
I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-pkix-ipki3cmp-08.txt Internet-Drafts