On Thu, Jul 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM Carl Wallace <[email protected]>
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> *From: *Kathleen Moriarty <[email protected]>
> *Date: *Thursday, July 24, 2025 at 5:31 AM
> *To: *Q Misell <[email protected]>
> *Cc: *<[email protected]>, Michael Richardson <[email protected]>,
> Mike Ounsworth <[email protected]>, IETF ACME <[email protected]>
> *Subject: *[Acme] Re: Personal review of draft-ietf-acme-client
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> There’s no way to add this to SCEP formally and EST relies on LaMPS, which
> is already backlogged.
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> [CW] Re: SCEP, I get your earlier point that using SCEP in new protocols
> is discouraged but SCEP is widely used and in some cases a minor tweak to
> SCEP makes more sense than replacing the certificate management protocol
> entirely. I do not follow your point above that one cannot add attestation
> support to SCEP. I’ve worked with an implementation that’s been
> provisioning certificates via a SCEP that was augmented with attestation
> information for ~8 years or so. The mechanism in
> draft-ietf-lamps-csr-attestation should work with SCEP as well. FWIW, I’m
> not against adoption, but let’s not try to cast ACME as the sole option.
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FYI - the draft is already adopted. There were a good number of reviews
between meetings and several who said they planned to implement in the
meeting. This discussion should be one to add to the in-person and not
replace it per typical IETF procedures.


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> I’m not sure why this has to go through adoption calls every single time
> it’s presented despite support. I don’t see that in other working groups or
> with other drafts.
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> -Kathleen
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> On Jul 24, 2025, at 11:26 AM, Q Misell <[email protected]>
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> I don't quite follow your argument. ACME is not widely deployed for what
> you want to achieve either.
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> Ar Iau, 24 Gorff 2025 am 11:16 <[email protected]> ysgrifennodd:
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> OK, forget Grok.
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> And again,  *EST* is NOT  the worldwide deployed standard, ACME is. This
> draft use the mature ACME facility to realize other certificate automation,
> this is the easy way than any other standard.
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> Best Regards
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> Richard Wang
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> *From:* Q Misell <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 24, 2025 3:34 PM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Cc:* Michael Richardson <[email protected]>; Mike Ounsworth
> <[email protected]>; IETF ACME <[email protected]>
> *Subject:* [Acme] Re: Personal review of draft-ietf-acme-client
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> > Grok told me that "EST Server Scenario: An enterprise with an internal
> CA uses an EST server to issue certificates for IoT devices", but we need
> ACME for public CA to issue publicly trusted certificate.
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> Not to constantly relitigate the value of LLMs, but what Grok has
> hallucinated here is not what EST can do, but rather what it has
> traditionally been used for. There is nothing to say it can't be used in a
> different context to how it is most commonly used.
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> Ar Iau, 24 Gorff 2025 am 03:26 <[email protected]> ysgrifennodd:
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> Hi Mike,
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> I checked EST: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7030 that released on
> 2013,
> early than RFC8555.
> Let me try to explain why not EST but ACME:
> (1) the most important reason is ACME is widely used worldwide, EST not;
> (2) Grok told me that "EST Server Scenario: An enterprise with an internal
> CA uses an EST server to issue certificates for IoT devices", but we need
> ACME for public CA to issue publicly trusted certificate.
> (3) This draft is just add more challenge type to ACME facility that widely
> used, then all type certificates support automation, this is the easy way
> for certificate automation then EST.
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> So I strongly recommend use ACME, not EST. And we need this draft for
> client
> certificate including code signing certificate and document signing
> certificate, thanks.
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> Best Regards
>
> Richard Wang
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Richardson <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2025 7:57 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: 'Mike Ounsworth' <[email protected]>; 'IETF
> ACME' <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Acme] Re: Personal review of draft-ietf-acme-client
>
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> <[email protected]> wrote:
>     > This RFC draft is for Client Certificate including Client
> Authentication
>     > Certificate, code signing certificate and document signing
> certificate, so
>     > all type certificates that CA issued support ACME, this is a VERY
> necessary
>     > standard that the industrial need.
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> Can you speculate as to why EST is not being used?
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> --
> Michael Richardson <[email protected]>, Sandelman Software Works
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