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[pkix] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC7030 (5107)
Sean Turner
2017-09-07 20:39:50 UTC
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Note that this issue was discovered during IESG review of draft-turner-est-extensions. Alexey, Panos, Dan, Max, and myself worked on the wording. I’m hoping it can stew for a couple of days and then be marked as accepted.

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The following errata report has been submitted for RFC7030,
"Enrollment over Secure Transport".
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http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid5107
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Type: Technical
Section: 3.2.1
Original Text
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Corrected Text
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[RFC2616] indicates "HTTP does not use the
Content-Transfer-Encoding (CTE) field of RFC 2045”; nevertheless, this
document was published specifying the use of the
Content-Transfer-Encoding header with a value of ‘base64' in Sections
4.1.3, 4.3.1, 4.3.2, 4.4.2, 4.5.2, as well as in the examples in
Appendices A.1-A.4. As HTTP is binary-clean transport, there is no
need to indicate this for HTTP-based protocols like EST. EST server
implementations SHOULD omit the Content-Transfer-Encoding header if
they know a priori that EST clients do not rely this field. EST
Clients SHOULD expect that the Content-Transfer-Encoding header will
be absent unless they have an a priori agreement with the EST server.
The mechanism to establish this client dependency is out-of-scope.
Notes
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EST, which is an HTTP-based protocol, erroneous used CTE. This errata addresses this error.
Note that the text was reviewed by a RAI AD as well as multiple EST implementors.
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RFC7030 (draft-ietf-pkix-est-09)
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Title : Enrollment over Secure Transport
Publication Date : October 2013
Author(s) : M. Pritikin, Ed., P. Yee, Ed., D. Harkins, Ed.
Category : PROPOSED STANDARD
Source : Public-Key Infrastructure (X.509)
Area : Security
Stream : IETF
Verifying Party : IESG
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