RE: Online Certificate Revocation Protocol

["JANES, Mark" <Mark.JANES@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Does anyone know what implementations of CMP exist?

Thanks,
Mark Janes
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-----Original Message-----
From: Nada Kapidzic Cicovic [mailto:nada@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 08 June 2001 12:21
To: madwolf@xxxxxxxxxx; ietf-pkix@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Online Certificate Revocation Protocol


At 11:01 AM 6/8/01 +0200, Massimiliano Pala wrote:
>Carlin Covey wrote:
>
> > But none of these allow a certificate to be revoked. I gather that
> > you are interested in a protocol for requesting revocation of
certificates.
> > Check out CMP, available at
> > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-pkix-rfc2510bis-04.txt
>
>This could be the case, anyway I was thinking of something more "robust"
>and a little bit complex -- as request/response contents -- to prevent
>unauthorized revoking requesting to prevent as much as possible DoS but
>allowing for a simple revocation method. This could help environments where
>legal issues are also covered -- govenment PKIs, Municipalities PKIs,
>etc...

This is exactly what CMP specifies. Many vendors already have support for 
CMP EE initiated certificate revocation. The interoperability of different 
implementations of CMP certificate revocation (among other things) has been 
conducted during PKI Forum and ICSA CMP interop testing quite successfully.

Nada


>The model I've been thinking of is mostly based on a structure very similar
>to the model proposed in OCSP. The choosen transport mechanism could be
>HTTP -- this could help browsers in adding the functionality and CSP to
>implement the service.
>
>--
>
>C'you,
>
>         Massimiliano Pala
>
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