X.509 Extensions Enhancements

"Housley, Russ" <rhousley@rsasecurity.com> Tue, 12 June 2001 17:10 UTC

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Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 12:18:09 -0400
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From: "Housley, Russ" <rhousley@rsasecurity.com>
Subject: X.509 Extensions Enhancements
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I have just been made aware that the most recent X.509 includes two 
additional reason codes.  This impacts the reasons in the CRL Distribution 
Points certificate extension and the onlySomeReasons in the Issuing 
Distribution Point CRL extension.  Both of these fields use the ReasonFlags 
type.  It also impacts the Reason Code CRL entry extension, which uses the 
CRLReason type.  I have provided the new definitions below.

    ReasonFlags ::= BIT STRING {
         unused                  (0),
         keyCompromise           (1),
         cACompromise            (2),
         affiliationChanged      (3),
         superseded              (4),
         cessationOfOperation    (5),
         certificateHold         (6),
         privilegeWithdrawn      (7),
         aACompromise            (8) }

    CRLReason ::= ENUMERATED {
         unspecified             (0),
         keyCompromise           (1),
         cACompromise            (2),
         affiliationChanged      (3),
         superseded              (4),
         cessationOfOperation    (5),
         certificateHold         (6),
         removeFromCRL           (8),
         privilegeWithdrawn      (9),
         aaCompromise           (10) }

The Issuing Distribution Point CRL extension has also been enhanced to 
include a boolean that indicates whether the CRL contains only entries 
associated with attribute certificates.  The new definition is:

    IssuingDistributionPoint ::= SEQUENCE {
         distributionPoint          [0] DistributionPointName OPTIONAL,
         onlyContainsUserCerts      [1] BOOLEAN DEFAULT FALSE,
         onlyContainsCACerts        [2] BOOLEAN DEFAULT FALSE,
         onlySomeReasons            [3] ReasonFlags OPTIONAL,
         indirectCRL                [4] BOOLEAN DEFAULT FALSE,
         onlyContainsAttributeCerts [5] BOOLEAN DEFAULT FALSE }

The original OIDs are still being used with these "enhanced" definitions, 
therefore I will be adding them to son-of-rfc2459.

Russ