PKIX WG Meeting 3/17/99 Edited by Steve Kent (WG co-chair) The PKIX WG met only once during the 44rd IETF and a approximately 200 individuals participated in these meetings. The meeting began with a review of the status of all of the WG document, presented by Warwick Ford, WG co-chair. The following text summarizes the status of the documents: PKIX COMPLETED DOCUMENTS PKIX Cert/CRL Profile (RFC 2459) Approved as Proposed Standard KEA Algorithms for Profile (RFC 2528) Approved as Informational RFC HTTP/FTP Operations (draft-ietf-pkix-opp-ftp-http-04.txt) Approved as Proposed Standard LDAP V2 Operational Protocols (draft-ietf-pkix-ipki2opp-08.txt) Approved as Proposed Standard LDAP V2 Schema (draft-ietf-pkix-ldapv2-schema-01.txt) Approved as Proposed Standard OCSP (draft-ietf-pkix-ocsp-05.txt) Approved as Proposed Standard CMP (RFC 2510) Approved as Proposed Standard CRMF (RFC 2511) Approved as Proposed Standard Certificate Policy/Practices Guideline (RFC 2527) Approved as Informational RFC PKIX WORK IN PROGRESS ECDSA Algorithms for Profile (draft-ietf-pkix-ipki-ecdsa-01.txt) New draft to be issued for WG last call shortly CMC (draft-ietf-pkix-cmc-02.txt) Under WG review Diffie-Hellman POP (draft-ietf-pkix-dhpop-00.txt) Under WG review Qualified Certificates (draft-ietf-santesson-qc-01.txt) Under WG review CMMF (draft-ietf-pkix-cmmf-02.txt) This item to be dropped from the program Time Stamp (draft-ietf-pkix-time-stamp-00.txt) Under WG review DCS (draft-ietf-pkix-dcs-00.txt) Under WG review Web-Based Integrated CA Services Protocol (draft-sakurai-pkix-icap-01.txt) Submitted for WG consideration Reports on Established Projects: A new WG charter was presented, in draft form, which shortly will be posted to the mailing list. The expanded charter encompasses attribute certificates, time stamping and notarization services, and qualified certificates. CMC and Diffie-Hellman POP (J. Schaad-Microsoft) The CMC draft did not meet submission deadline, but was made available to the list. The D-H POP draft is undergoing revision. CMC has been revised to accommodate comments from Carlisle from the last meeting. Additional changes are planned, including removal of the key archival and recovery features, and clarification of RA operations. PKIX Roadmap (A. Arsenault-NSA) Missed submission deadline. Undergoing revision to deal with terminology inconsistencies, POP, adding a history of PKIX, new work items (e.g., qualified certificates and time stamping), explanation of name constraints for alt name forms, path validation, etc. Qualified Certificates (S. Santesson) Goals of qualified certificates were reviewed. The fundamental thrust of this work is the development of a new SubjectAltName type, for "unmistakable identity" ID information. Attribute semantics represents the top-level structure for the SubjectaltName, making it clear what form of ID is being provided, e.g., national ID card or driver license. Also, this extension will contain a registration authority field, as required by German law. A pointer to a web site for additional info was provided (http://www.accurata.se/QC/). Suggestion was made to consider splitting this work into two document: one for the new name form, and another (informational?) to explain the context for which this new name form was devised. However, to the extent that a qualified certificate imposes constraints on other certificate fields, it is not clear Data Certification and Time Stamping (R. Zuccherato-Entrust) Data certification server I-D not recently updated, but will be soon, to respond to comments, e.g., ASN.1 corrections and more explanatory text. The time stamping document also has not been updated recently, but will undergo minor revisions, e.g., to allow for issuance of a time stamp without submission of a hash. Unfortunately, the topics of time stamping and data certification are rife with intellectual property claims, which may interfere with progression of these documents. Specifically, a lawsuit has been filed by patent holders against a company that has implemented a prior version of this protocol. The WG chairs will work with the authors of the documents to help resolve these issues. Other Topics: Progressing RFC 2459 to Draft Status (T. Polk-NIST) Collecting inputs for (mostly) minor corrections and clarifications to this document in anticipation of progressing this work. OCSP Clarification (S. Kent-BBN) Two sections of OCSP will be revised to clarify what is required of compliant clients and servers with respect to what keys can be used to sign OCSP responses. Specifically, an OCSP response must be signed by either the CA who issued the certificate in question, by an entity who has been explicitly delegated this authority by that CA (through direct issuance and inclusion of a specified EKU extension), or by an entity who has been selected as authoritative by the client. Compliant OCSP servers and clients MUST be able to support all three of these options.(Satisfying the third option is largely trivial for the server, but requires a configuration capability for clients.) Will End-Entity Certificates be Fat or Low Fat? (D. Pinkas-Bull) Proposal to minimize the addition of extensions to EE certificates, by moving as much of this sort of information to CA certificates, from EE certificates. Examples of such extension data are pointers to OCSP responders and CRL servers, where applicable to all certificates issued by a CA. Attribute Certificates (S. Farrell-SSE) A kickoff announcement of this new work item. Providing pointers to work on attribute certificates for use with TLS, as an example. OCSP Interoperability Testing (A. Malparni-ValiCert) Reported on tests of seven independent implementations. All made use of HTTP and direct, DER encoding (not base 64). Discovered some problems, e.g., in hash computation. Server-based Certificate Validation (A. Malparni-ValiCert) A suggestion to explore "outsourcing" certificate validation to a server, from a client. Proposal is to develop a protocol between a client and the validation server, which might be attractive when the client is not computationally capable, or to help by centralizing administration of certificate validation management. There are security concerns here, because of the centralization of security function in servers. MISPC Reference Implementation (T. Polk-NIST) CDROM contains CA, RA, and client executable code. Represents a profile of 2459, CMP, and CRMF. Available via web site: http://crscnist.gov/pki/mispc/