Re: [kmip] Asymmetric Key Profiles and Associated Proposed Changesto KMIP

[Sean Turner <turners@ieca.com>]

Curious what others think about requiring support for PKCS1 instead of 
Transparent RSA public/private in the Basic Asymmetric Key Store and the 
Basic Asymmetric Key Foundry and Server profiles?  Maybe we should 
switch because when you generate RSA keys with things like OpenSSL it 
automatically spits out the PKCS1 format.  It would be less work for an 
implementation to be compliant.

spt

Furlong_Judith@emc.com wrote:
> At yesterday's OASIS TC call I promised to send out an email to
> summarize the KMIP Asymmetric Key Profiles body of work and remind all
> of you on the committee to review and provide comments on the profiles
> document and the associated modification proposals via this email list.
> 
> The "Basic Asymmetric Key Profiles" document was posted on November 5,
> 2009 to the KMIP OASIS TC site.
> Please see
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/document.php?document_id=35010
> 
> The Basic Asymmetric Key Profiles document includes five separate
> profiles namely:
> 
> 1.  Basic Asymmetric Key Store (section 1.1):  Key pairs are generated
> external to the server and are sent to the server for storage (perhaps
> for key escrow reasons or for ease of distribution to other entities).
> This profile only requires support for the Register operation.  No
> support for certificates imposed on server.
> 
> 2.  Basic Asymmetric Key and Certificate Store (section 1.2):  Key pairs
> and certificates are generated external to the server and are sent to
> the server for storage (perhaps for key escrow reasons or for ease of
> distribution to other entities).  This profile only requires support for
> the Register operation.  [May need to make vaulting of dig sig/non-rep
> only keys optional to avoid controversy over whether this type of keys
> should be held away from the owner of the keys.]
> 
> 3.  Basic Asymmetric Key Foundry and Server (Section 1.3):  3.  Key
> pairs (but not certificates) are generated by the server.  This profile
> only requires support for the Create Key Pair and Rekey (which is
> modified supports asymmetric keys) operations.
> 
> 4.  Basic Certificate Server (Section 1.4):  Key pairs are generated
> external to the server (aka locally at the client) but the client would
> contact the server to request a certificate to be generated -- either
> directly by the KM or the KM proxies the request to a CA.  This profile
> would support Certify and Re-certify.  [Optionally this profile could
> support register for the key pairs.]
> 
> 5.  Basic Asymmetric Key Foundry and Certificate Server (Section 1.5):
> Key pairs are generated by the server and the server would also handle
> getting the corresponding certificates generated (either using its own
> capabilities or by contacting a CA).  This profile would include the
> Create Key Pair, Rekey (which is modified supports asymmetric keys),
> Certify and Re-certify operations.
> 
> 
> In support of the Basic Asymmetric Key Profiles document two proposals
> for modifying the KMIP Specification and supporting documents (e.g.
> Usage Guide) have been submitted:
> 
> 1.	Proposal for Supporting Rekey of Asymmetric Key Pairs was
> submitted on December 4, 2009
> Please see
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/document.php?document_id=35444
> 
> The proposal describes a new KMIP operation for rekeying asymmetric key
> pairs and also
> outlines changes to the KMIP Spec and KMIP Usage Guide in light of the
> addition of this new operation.
> 
> 2.	Proposal for Making Submission of a Certificate Request in the
> Certify and Re-certify Operations Optional was submitted on December 3,
> 2009
> Please see
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/document.php?document_id=35434
> 
> This proposal makes the inclusion of the Certificate Request attribute
> and 
> the associated Certificate Request Type attribute in the Certify and
> Re-certify operations as non-mandatory.
> 
> If anyone has questions please feel free to post to this mailing list or
> contact me directly.
> 
> Judy Furlong
> 
> |Principal Product Manager|EMC Product Security Office|RSA -The Security
> Division of EMC|
> |t: 508 249 3698|e: Furlong_Judith@emc.com|
> 
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