RFC 5934 · PROPOSED STANDARD · 2010

Trust Anchor Management Protocol

Overview

RFC 5934, “Trust Anchor Management Protocol”, is a Proposed Standard document published in August 2010 by R. Housley, S. Ashmore, C. Wallace. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This document describes a transport independent protocol for the management of trust anchors (TAs) and community identifiers stored in a trust anchor store. The protocol makes use of the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS), and a digital signature is used to provide integrity protection and data origin authentication. The protocol can be used to manage trust anchor stores containing trust anchors represented as Certificate, TBSCertificate, or TrustAnchorInfo objects. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

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What “Proposed Standard” means

An entry-level standards-track specification: stable, peer-reviewed and a solid basis for implementation, though it may still evolve before becoming an Internet Standard.

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