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Qualified Certificates: Understanding the PKIX Charter for Secure Digital Signatures

Explore the purpose, scope, and profile of Qualified Certificates as outlined in the PKIX charter. Learn about subject names, mandatory and optional details, and the role of sponsors like NIST and VeriSign. Discover the need for legal and technical harmonization in standardization efforts.

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Qualified Certificates: Understanding the PKIX Charter for Secure Digital Signatures

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  1. IETF(The wild west of standardization) • Internet: A chaotic group of interconnecting networks • IETF: A chaotic group of interacting people, for the purpose of standardization • No membership, Individual contributors • Ruff consensus and running code • Impact emerges from implementation, not from document creation

  2. PKIX charter • Certificate and CRL profiles (RFC 2459 and Qualified Certificates) • Directory structure (LDAPv2, schema) • Certificate management (CMS, CRMF, CMMF) • Certificate validation (OCDP, OCSP) • Timestamp protocols

  3. Qualified Certificatesmajor field of application • Digital signatures, functionally equivalent to handwritten signatures • Initial registration for new certificates. A CA CA CA CA CA CA B CA CA CA CA C

  4. Qualified Certificates draftBasic Outline www.ietf.org/html/charters/pkix-charter.html • Purpose of the document • Scope and the term “Qualified Certificates” • Profile • Issuer name • Subject Name • Policy • Key usage

  5. Qualified CertificatesSubject name (Identity) • Subject field • Country • Common name &| Given name, surname • DN Qualifier • Organization + unit • Postal address • SubjectAltName ext. • Attribute semantics • Registration authority • Name or Pseudonym • Unique identifier • Date of birth • Place of birth • Gender • Postal address • Country of citizenship • Country of residence Mandatory Optional

  6. Qualified CertificatesSponsors and contributors • NIST (National Institute of Standards, USA) • GMD (Germany) • SEIS (Secured Electronic Information in Society) • UPU (Universal Postal Union) • Statskontoret (Swedish Agency for Administrative Development) • VeriSign (With European partners)

  7. What needs to be done? • Legal and technical harmonization • Small steps not to far a head of reality • Let de-facto standardization proceed formal standards • PKIX reflects rather good the primary global needs • Local specificity needs to be added, subject to local standardization

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