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A Critical View on RFC 3647

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Public Key Infrastructure (EuroPKI 2007)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNSC,volume 4582))

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A Certification Practice Statement (CPS), as well as one or several Certificate Policies (CP) are important parts of a Public Key Infrastructure. The by far most important source of information for writing a CPS or CP was developed by an IETF working group and was published as RFC 3647 [1]. RFC 3647 can be thought of as a generic instruction set for creating a CPS and a CP. Yet, experience shows that working with RFC 3647 can be quite difficult. This is due to some fundamental issues, but also due to some shortcomings and faults in the standard. In addition, it is difficult to use RFC 3647 for a CPS/CP that is used outside the US. This paper names the main problems that a CPS/CP author has to face when following RFC 3647. It discusses possible solutions and reveals why the development of a new standard would be appropriate.

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References

  1. Chokhani, S., Ford, W.: Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate Policy and Certification Practices Framework. RFC 2527 (1999)

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  2. Chokhani, S., Ford, W., Sabett, R., Merrill, C., Wu, S.: Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate Policy and Certification Practices Framework. RFC 3647 (2003)

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    Klaus Schmeh

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Javier Lopez Pierangela Samarati Josep L. Ferrer

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Schmeh, K. (2007). A Critical View on RFC 3647. In: Lopez, J., Samarati, P., Ferrer, J.L. (eds) Public Key Infrastructure. EuroPKI 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4582. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73408-6_29

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