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Certificate Management Messages over CMS

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Network Working Group                                            M. Myers
Request for Comments: 2797                                       VeriSign
Category: Standards Track                                          X. Liu
                                                                    Cisco
                                                                J. Schaad
                                                                Microsoft
                                                             J. Weinstein
                                                               April 2000


                Certificate Management Messages over CMS

Status of this Memo

   This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
   Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
   improvements.  Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
   Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
   and status of this protocol.  Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2000).  All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

   This document defines a Certificate Management protocol using CMS
   (CMC).  This protocol addresses two immediate needs within the
   Internet PKI community:

   1. The need for an interface to public key certification products and
      services based on [CMS] and [PKCS10], and
   2. The need in [SMIMEV3] for a certificate enrollment protocol for
      DSA-signed certificates with Diffie-Hellman public keys.

   A small number of additional services are defined to supplement the
   core certificate request service.

   Throughout this specification the term CMS is used to refer to both
   [CMS] and [PKCS7].  For both signedData and envelopedData, CMS is a
   superset of the PKCS7. In general, the use of PKCS7 in this document
   is aligned to the Cryptographic Message Syntax [CMS] that provides a
   superset of the PKCS7 syntax. The term CMC refers to this
   specification.

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED",  "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC 2119].



Myers, et al.               Standards Track
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