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Łukasz Nowak
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c77d0042
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c77d0042
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Sep 20, 2018
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Łukasz Nowak
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Vincent Pelletier
Sep 21, 2018
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@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ constraint at all on subject and alternate subject certificate fields.
To still allow certificates to be used, caucase uses itself to authenticate
users (humans or otherwise) who implement the validation procedure: they tell
caucase what certificates to emit. Once done, any certificate can be
prol
ungat
ed at a simple request of the key holder while the to-renew
prol
ong
ed at a simple request of the key holder while the to-renew
certificate is still valid (not expired, not revoked).
Bootstrapping the system (creating the first service certificate for
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Vocabulary
==========
Caucase manipulates the following asymetric cryptography concepts.
Caucase manipulates the following asym
m
etric cryptography concepts.
- Key pair: A private key and corresponding public key. The public key can be
derived from the private key, but not the other way around. As a consequence,
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certified, which they send to a certificate authority. The certificate signing
request contains the public key and desired set of attributes that the CA
should pronounce itself on. The CA has all liberty to issue a different set
of att
i
ributes, or to not issue a certificate.
of attributes, or to not issue a certificate.
- Certificate revocation list: Lists the certificates which were issued by a CA
but which should not be trusted an
n
ymore. This can happen for a variety of
reasons: the private key was compromised, or its own
e
ing entity should not be
but which should not be trusted anymore. This can happen for a variety of
reasons: the private key was compromised, or its owning entity should not be
trusted anymore (ex: entity's permission to access to protected service was
revoked).
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Validity period
===============
Cryptographic keys wear out as are used and a
nd a
s they age.
Cryptographic keys wear out as are used and as they age.
Of course, they do not bit-rot nor become thinner with use. But each time one
uses a key and each minute an attacker had access to a public key, fractions
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@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ Then the CA certificate has a default life span of 4 "normal" certificate
validity periods. As CA renewal happens in caucase without x509-level cross
signing (by decision, to avoid relying on intermediate CA support on
certificate presenter side and instead rely on more widespread
multi-CA-certificate support on v
i
rifier side), there is a hard lower bound of
multi-CA-certificate support on v
e
rifier side), there is a hard lower bound of
3 validity periods, under which the CA certificate cannot be reliably renewed
without risking certificate validation issues for emitted "normal"
certificates. CA certificate renewal is composed of 2 phases:
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out of use as its signed "normal" certificates expire.
By default, all caucase tools will generate a new private key unrelated to the
previous one on each certificat renewal.
previous one on each certificat
e
renewal.
Lastly, there is another limited validity period, although not for the same
reasons: the list of revoked certificates also has a maximum life span. In
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- key holders manifest themselves
- admin picks a key holder, requests them to provide their existing private key
and to generate a new key and accompanying
csr
and to generate a new key and accompanying
CSR
- key holder provide requested items
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