[plasma] Who creates the 'keyIdentifier'?

Alan Borland <alan.b.borland@googlemail.com> Wed, 18 July 2012 08:30 UTC

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Subject: [plasma] Who creates the 'keyIdentifier'?
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I'm trying to understand who generates the 'KeyIdentifier' element in the
'KEKIdentifier' structure of the 'RecipientInfo' created by the client.

Is it the client?  The Plasma CMS Processing document, Page 8, describes
how the 'KeyIdentifier' is a random generated value (Created by the
client?).

Is it the Plasma Server?  On Page 13 the KekIdentifier is a value that
matches the KEKIdentifier.KeyIdentifier value in the recipient info
information (I have read this to mean that the EPS-LockBox version must
match the KeyIdentifier in the envelopedData created by the client, meaning
the KeyIdentifer must be transported between client and plasma server).

>From this I thought the client created the random value and passed it
across to the server inside the 'GetCMSToken' request. However, I can't see
this described in the request.  Is this missing from the request
documentation, or does this Imply that the client has to extract the
KeyIdentifer from the EPS-KEK returned in the GetCMSToken response, but
this is encrypted and only the Plasma Server has access to this.  Or have I
mis-read this completely?

Alan.

Boldon James.