New ASN.1 Modules for the Public Key Infrastructure Using X.509 (PKIX)
RFC 5912
| Document | Type |
RFC - Informational
(June 2010; Errata)
Updated by RFC 6960
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| Last updated | 2020-01-21 | ||
| Replaces | draft-hoffman-pkix-new-asn1 | ||
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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) P. Hoffman
Request for Comments: 5912 VPN Consortium
Category: Informational J. Schaad
ISSN: 2070-1721 Soaring Hawk Consulting
June 2010
New ASN.1 Modules for the Public Key Infrastructure Using X.509 (PKIX)
Abstract
The Public Key Infrastructure using X.509 (PKIX) certificate format,
and many associated formats, are expressed using ASN.1. The current
ASN.1 modules conform to the 1988 version of ASN.1. This document
updates those ASN.1 modules to conform to the 2002 version of ASN.1.
There are no bits-on-the-wire changes to any of the formats; this is
simply a change to the syntax.
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
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Not all documents
approved by the IESG are a candidate for any level of Internet
Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 5741.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5912.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1. Design Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2. ASN.1 Module PKIX-CommonTypes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3. ASN.1 Module AlgorithmInformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4. ASN.1 Module for RFC 2560 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
5. ASN.1 Module for RFC 2986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
6. ASN.1 Module for RFC 3279 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
7. ASN.1 Module for RFC 3852 (Attribute Certificate v1) . . . . 34
8. ASN.1 Module for RFC 4055 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
9. ASN.1 Module for RFC 4210 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
10. ASN.1 Module for RFC 4211 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
11. ASN.1 Module for RFC 5055 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
12. ASN.1 Module for RFC 5272 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
13. ASN.1 Module for RFC 5755 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
14. ASN.1 Module for RFC 5280, Explicit and Implicit . . . . . . 91
15. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
16. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
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1. Introduction
Some developers would like the IETF to use the latest version of
ASN.1 in its standards. Most of the RFCs that relate to security
protocols still use ASN.1 from the 1988 standard, which has been
deprecated. This is particularly true for the standards that relate
to PKIX, Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS), and S/MIME.
This document updates the following RFCs to use ASN.1 modules that
conform to the 2002 version of ASN.1 [ASN1-2002]. Note that not all
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