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Toreless - draft-5 section 2.3: clarify which registrar is used #62

Closed mcr closed 10 months ago

mcr commented 11 months ago

262 2.3. Pledge Certificate Identity Considerations

264 BRSKI section 5.9.2 specifies that the pledge MUST send an EST 265 [RFC7030] CSR Attributes request to the registrar. The registrar MAY

which registrar - cloud or owner ?

upros commented 10 months ago

Actually, BRSKI 5.9.2 specifies to send CSR Attrs to EST Server, not the Registrar.

mcr commented 10 months ago

EST Server IS an RFC7030 Registrar, I thought.

upros commented 10 months ago

Well, RFC7030 refers to a Registration Authority, and points to RFC5272 for a definition of that.

RFC8995 defines a Registrar which does more than a basic RFC7030/RFC5272 RA.

I read it as: the RA only does PKI functions. The Registrar does PKI + BRSKI functions.