[Smcwg-public] [EXTERNAL]-Re: Fields for S/MIME CSRs

Pedro FUENTES pfuentes at wisekey.com
Fri Sep 29 17:35:00 UTC 2023


+1


> Le 29 sept. 2023 à 17:52, Clint Wilson via Smcwg-public <smcwg-public at cabforum.org> a écrit :
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> In my opinion, CSRs should really be limited to conveying the public key and a proof of possession of the private key; the fields included therein may act as confirmatory signals for a CA, but shouldn’t be directly relied upon e.g. to generate a tbsCertificate. Rather, the values placed in fields of a tbsCertificate should originate from the CA’s validated data store to ensure that the only paths for data to become part of a signed certificate are through static configurations (e.g. signatureAlgorithm) or known-validated data.
> 
> There’s plenty of nuance we can discuss as well, but generally speaking I believe it’s bad practice to rely on fields in the CSR.
> 
> Cheers,
> -Clint
> 
>> On Sep 29, 2023, at 8:27 AM, Ben Wilson via Smcwg-public <smcwg-public at cabforum.org> wrote:
>> 
>> All,
>> I'm interested in gathering information from Certificate Issuers about the kind of information that they would like to collect/extract from the CSRs they receive from S/MIME certificate applicants. This information could be used to refine a system to generate CSRs that result in certificates compliant with the various profiles defined in the S/MIME BRs. Alternatively, what is the minimum amount of information that CAs might expect to obtain from CSRs? In other words, which fields should a CSR generator integrated with a Certificate Consumer's software support?
>> Thanks,
>> Ben
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