Re: [pkix] Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol (SCEP)

Michael Jenkins <bergtau@gmail.com> Tue, 14 October 2014 11:15 UTC

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Subject: Re: [pkix] Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol (SCEP)
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The new protocol is documented in RFC 7030, "Enrollment over Secure
Transport". I'm not familiar enough with SCEP to know what the differences
are or if they are large; one primary reason for publishing the new
protocol was to permit algorithm update.

Mike

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 6:18 AM, Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
wrote:

> Erik Andersen <era@x500.eu> writes:
> >Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) (
> >
> http://www.iec.ch/members_experts/refdocs/iec/isoiec-dir2%7Bed6.0%7Den.pdf
> )
> >appears to be widely used and implemented although it is specified in an
> old,
> >expired Internet draft from 2011 that was never issued as an RFC.
> >
> >Why was it never issued as an RFC and why should it not be on the
> standards
> >track?
>
> Because it wasn't invented by PKIX.  PKIX have their own two protocols, CMP
> and CMC, both of which have practically nonexistent support, and even less
> interoperability.  SCEP was invented by Cisco but they're trying to disown
> it
> in favour of another new protocol they've dreamed up with (you guessed it)
> practically nonexistent support and interoperability.
>
> Peter.
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