Public Key Infrastructure (X.509) WG (PKIX)

Monday, November 7, 2005

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CHAIRS: Stephen Kent <kent@bbn.com>

Tim Polk <tim.polk@nist.gov>

WG Status and Direction

Document Status Review Tim Polk (NIST)

(10 min.)

PKIX WG Specifications

RFC 2797bis, CMC Compliance - Jim Schaad (Soaring Hawk)

Jim will briefly review the status of these documents, which were just updated.

(10 minutes)

SCVP rev 21- Tim Polk (NIST)

Tim will provide a brief review of the changes made to this

document as it moved from version 20 to version 21.

(20 minutes)

SHA-1 Collisions & PKIX - Russ Housley (Vigil Security)

Russ will discuss the need for a document that describes the impact

of recent attacks SHA-1, as this hash function is used in the PKIX

context.

(20 minutes)

SHA-2 support in PKIX – Tim Polk (NIST)

Tim will discuss plans to develop two RFCs that describe how to

use SHA-2 with DSA and ECDSA.

(15 minutes)

Service Names as Subject Alt Names - Stefan Santesson (Microsoft)

Discussion of Stefan’s I-D on this topic, with emphasis on the

encoding to be used (OCTET vs. UTF8 vs. IA5).

(15 min.)

Related Specifications & Liaison Presentations

Time allowing, liaison presentations will be accommodated to ensure

that PKIX is aware of related specifications currently progressing

as individual drafts or work items in other working groups.

Carl Wallace (Orion Security) – LTANS WG status

(10 minutes)