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This provides a library for interacting with the Nitro Secure Module, which provides Nitro Enclaves with attestation capability.
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What is Infrastructure certificate ? #26

Closed msnitish closed 2 years ago

msnitish commented 2 years ago

In the attestation process explanation page, the section explaining about the structure of Attestation document has the certificate field. I would like to understand more about this.

certificate: cert, ; the infrastructure certificate used to sign this ; document, DER encoded

  1. What does infrastructure certificate mean ?
  2. What kind of information is included inside this infrastructure certificate ?
axlprv commented 2 years ago

Hi @msnitish!

  1. What does infrastructure certificate mean ?

The infrastructure certificate is a X509 end-entity certificate used to sign the attestation document.

  1. What kind of information is included inside this infrastructure certificate ?

The infrastructure certificate includes basic information: