Suite B Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile
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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)                        J. Solinas
Request for Comments: 5759                                    L. Zieglar
Category: Informational                                              NSA
ISSN: 2070-1721                                             January 2010

   Suite B Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile

Abstract

   This document specifies a base profile for X.509 v3 Certificates and
   X.509 v2 Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs) for use with the United
   States National Security Agency's Suite B Cryptography.  The reader
   is assumed to have familiarity with RFC 5280, "Internet X.509 Public
   Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL)
   Profile".

Status of This Memo

   This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
   published for informational purposes.

   This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
   (IETF).  It represents the consensus of the IETF community.  It has
   received public review and has been approved for publication by the
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   Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 5741.

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Table of Contents

   1. Introduction ....................................................2
   2. Conventions Used in This Document ...............................3
   3. Requirements and Assumptions ....................................3
      3.1. Implementing Suite B .......................................3
      3.2. Suite B Object Identifiers .................................4
   4. Suite B Certificate and Certificate Extensions Profile ..........4
      4.1. signatureAlgorithm .........................................4
      4.2. signatureValue .............................................5
      4.3. Version ....................................................6
      4.4. SubjectPublicKeyInfo .......................................6
      4.5. Certificate Extensions for Particular Types of
           Certificates ...............................................7
           4.5.1. Suite B Self-Signed CA Certificates .................7
           4.5.2. Suite B Non-Self-Signed CA Certificates .............8
           4.5.3. Suite B End Entity Signature and Key
                  Establishment Certificates ..........................8
   5. Suite B CRL and CRL Extensions Profile ..........................9
   6. Security Considerations .........................................9
   7. IANA Considerations .............................................9
   8. References .....................................................10
      8.1. Normative References ......................................10
      8.2. Informative References ....................................10

1.  Introduction

   This document specifies a base profile for X.509 v3 Certificates and
   X.509 v2 Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs) for use by applications
   that support the United States National Security Agency's Suite B
   Cryptography.

   The reader is assumed to have familiarity with [RFC5280].  This Suite
   B Certificate and CRL Profile is a profile of RFC 5280.  All MUST-
   level requirements of RFC 5280 apply throughout this profile and are
   generally not repeated here.  In cases where a MUST-level requirement
   is repeated for emphasis, the text notes the requirement is "in
   adherence with [RFC5280]".  This profile contains changes that
   elevate some MAY-level options in RFC 5280 to SHOULD-level and MUST-
   level in this profile; this profile also contains changes that
   elevate some SHOULD-level options in RFC 5280 to MUST-level for this
   profile.  All options from RFC 5280 that are not listed in this
   profile remain at the requirement level of RFC 5280.

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