RFC 8951 · PROPOSED STANDARD · 2020

Clarification of Enrollment over Secure Transport : Transfer Encodings and ASN.1

Overview

RFC 8951, “Clarification of Enrollment over Secure Transport : Transfer Encodings and ASN.1”, is a Proposed Standard document published in November 2020 by M. Richardson, T. Werner, W. Pan. It updates RFC 7030. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This document updates RFC 7030: Enrollment over Secure Transport to resolve some errata that were reported and that have proven to cause interoperability issues when RFC 7030 was extended.

This document deprecates the specification of "Content-Transfer-Encoding" headers for Enrollment over Secure Transport (EST) endpoints. This document fixes some syntactical errors in ASN.1 that were present.

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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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This RFC updates
RFC 7030
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