RFC 6402 · PROPOSED STANDARD · 2011

Certificate Management over CMS Updates

Overview

RFC 6402, “Certificate Management over CMS Updates”, is a Proposed Standard document published in November 2011 by J. Schaad. It updates RFC 5272, RFC 5273, RFC 5274. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This document contains a set of updates to the base syntax for CMC, a Certificate Management protocol using the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS). This document updates RFC 5272, RFC 5273, and RFC 5274.

The new items in this document are: new controls for future work in doing server side key generation, definition of a Subject Information Access value to identify CMC servers, and the registration of a port number for TCP/IP for the CMC service to run on. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

Abstract as published in the RFC, via rfc-editor.org.

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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Relationships to other RFCs
This RFC updates
RFC 5272 RFC 5273 RFC 5274
Other RFCs from 2011

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