Internet-Draft PKIX Key Attestation February 2025
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Remote ATtestation procedureS
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Authors:
M. Ounsworth
Entrust
J.-P. Fiset
Crypto4A
H. Tschofenig
H-BRS
H. Birkholz
Fraunhofer SIT
M. Wiseman
Beyond Identity
N. Smith
Intel Corporation

PKIX Key Attestation

Abstract

This document specifies a vendor-agnostic format for attesting to the protection properties of a symmetric or asymmetric cryptographic key within a hardware cryptographic module to support applications such as providing evidence to a Certification Authority that a key is being protected in accordance with the requested certificate profile, or that HSMs can perform key import and maintain the private key protection properties in a robust way even when migrating keys across HSM vendors. This specification includes a format for requesting a key attestation containing certain attributes. This specification is called "PKIX Attestation" because it is designed to be easy to implement on top of a code base that already supports X.509 and PKCS#11 data models.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction

This specification is targeted at attesting to the storage of cryptographic key material -- symmetric keys or asymmetric private keys -- within a hardware cryptographic module such as a Hardware Security Module (HSM) or Trusted Platform Module (TPM). HSMs and TPMs are devices whose primary purpose is to hold cryptographic keys and support interfaces whereby they can be used to perform encrypt, decrypt, sign, MAC and other keyed cryptographic operations on provided data without the key material ever leaving the hardware module. Typically an HSM or TPM holds an uses cryptographic keys on behalf of an application such as a Certification Authority, a code signing service, a TLS server. However, also included in the scope of this draft are single-purpose cryptographic devices such as smartcards which may hold only a single application key for a single purpose such as authenticating to a near-field "tap" terminal. Within this specification we will generically refer to the attesting device as an "HSM", and to the cryptographic keys that it holds an operates on behalf of some other application as "application keys".

EDNOTE: is "application keys" a bad choice since "AK" already means "attestation key"?

The goal of this specification is to provide a standardized format in which an HSM can attest that one or more application keys are contained within a hardware module, and attest to any additional attributes relating to the protection of this key material.

This requires providing evidence to the key protection properties of that key, referred to in this specification as "key attributes", as well as to the operational state of the hardware platform, referred to as "platform attributes". This specification also provides a format for requesting that a cryptographic module produce a key attestation about a specific application key, the application keys in a specific sub-environment of the HSM, or that the returned attestation contain a specific set of attributes. See Section 4 for the full information model.

As described below in Section 3 "Architecture and Conceptual Model", this specification uses a simplification of the Remote ATtestation procedureS (RATS) Architecture [!RFC9443] by assuming that the attesting environment and the target environment are the same environment, and that this environment only produces self-attested evidence as this aligns with the target hardware platforms. As such, the attestation data format specified in Section 4 only contains evidence (referred to in this document as "attributes") and does not provide for any form of endorsement except for endorsement of the device's attestation signing key which is endorsed via an X.509 certificate chain rooted in a trust anchor belonging either to the device manufacturer or to the device operator, as described in Section 3.1.

Unlike other attestation data formats defined by the RATS working group, the format defined in this document is targeting devices designed to operate within Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) ecosystems; this motivates the following design choices:

For these reasons, this attestation format is called "PKIX Key Attestation" and may be used, for example within a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) object; [[I-D.ietf-lamps-csr-attestation]] specifies how to carry evidence within PKCS#10 [[RFC2986]] or Certificate Request Message Format (CRMF) [[RFC4211]].

This document provides a vendor-agnostic format for attesting to the logical and physical protection properties of a cryptographic key and it envisions uses such as providing evidence to a Certification Authority that a key is being protected in accordance with the requested certificate profile, or that HSMs can perform key import and maintain the private key protection properties in a robust way even when migrating keys across HSMs from different vendors.

2. Terminology

TODO: I think some of this terminology is not needed. TODO: JP believes that PAK, KAK and KAS should be removed. TODO: MikeO believes that PAT, KAT, and CAB can also be removed.

The reader is assumed to be familiar with the vocabulary and concepts defined in [RFC9334].

The following terms are used in this document:

Root of Trust (RoT):

A set of software and/or hardware components that need to be trusted to act as a security foundation required for accomplishing the security goals of a system. In our case, the RoT is expected to offer the functionality for attesting to the state of the platform, and to attest the properties of the identity key (IK). More precisely, it has to attest the integrity of the IK (public as well as private key) and the confidentiality of the IK private key. This document makes a simplifying assumption that the RoT, the attesting environment holding the attestation key, and the target environment being measured and attested are all the same environment.

Attestation Key (AK):

Cryptographic key belonging to the RoT that is only used to sign attestation tokens.

Platform Attestation Key (PAK):

An AK used specifically for signing attestation tokens relating to the state of the platform.

Key Attestation:

Evidence containing properties of the environment(s) in which the private keys are generated and stored. For example, a Relying Party may want to know whether a private key is stored in a hardware security module and cannot be exported in cleartext.

Key Attestation Key (KAK):

An AK used specifically for signing KATs. In some systems only a single AK is used. In that case the AK is used as a PAK and a KAK.

Identity Key (IK):

The IK consists of a private and a public key. The private key is used by the usage protocol. The public key is included in the Key Attestation Token. The IK is protected by the RoT.

Usage Protocol:

A (security) protocol that requires demonstrating possession of the private component of the IK.

Attestation Token (AT):

A collection of claims that a RoT assembles (and signs) with the purpose of informing - in a verifiable way - relying parties about the identity and state of the platform. Essentially a type of Evidence as per the RATS architecture terminology [RFC9334].

Platform Attestation Token (PAT):

An AT containing claims relating to the security state of the platform, including software constituting the platform trusted computing base (TCB). The process of generating a PAT typically involves gathering data during measured boot.

Key Attestation Token (KAT):

An AT containing a claim with a public key. The KAT may also contain other claims, such as those indicating its validity. The KAT is signed by the KAK. The key attestation service, which is part of the platform root of trust (RoT), conceptually acts as a local certification authority since the KAT behaves like a certificate.

Combined Attestation Bundle (CAB):

A structure used to bundle a KAT and a PAT together for transport in the usage protocol. If the KAT already includes a PAT, in form of a nested token, then it already corresponds to a CAB. A CAB is equivalent to a certificate that binds the identity of the platform's TCB with the IK public key.

Presenter:

Party that proves possession of a private key to a recipient of a KAT. Typically this will be an application layer entity such as a cryptographic library constructing a Certificate Signing Request that must embed a key attestation, or a TLS library attempting to perform attested TLS. The Presenter is not fulfilling any roles in the RATS architecture.

Recipient:

Party that receives the KAT containing the proof-of-possession key information from the presenter. The Recipient is likely fulfilling the roles of Verifier and Relying Party in the RATS architecture, but the exact details of this arrangement is out-of-scope for this specification.

Key Attestation Service (KAS):

The module within the HSM that is responsible for parsing the PKIX Attestation Request, measuring the Platform and the Key attributes, constructing the PKIX Attestation object, and signing it with the AK. The KAS fulfills the role of Attester in the RATS architecture. Note that real HSMs may or may not implement the Attester as a single internal module, but this abstraction is used for the design and security analysis of this specification.

The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all capitals, as shown here.

3. Architecture and Conceptual Model

Key attestation is an extension to the attestation functionality described in [RFC9334]. In the general RATS Architecture, an attesting device consists of a hardware Root of Trust (RoT) which provides the basis for trust in the device, and then one or more layers of attestations where an attesting environment collects and signs measurements (evidence) about a target environment. Trust is established by chaining the cryptographic signatures on each layer of evidence up to the next layer of attester until the RoT is reached, and trust is established in the RoT via 3rd party endorsements. The target devices for this specification tend to operate on a different architecture and trust model: the devices consist of one single logical environment (combining the RATS roles of RoT, attesting environment, and target environment together into a single entity), and trust is established via product validations conducted by third-party testing labs against standardized security and functional requirements such as FIPS 140-3 or a given Common Criteria protection profile. A FIPS or CC certification provided by a testing lab would conceptually count as an endorsement of the hardware platform in the RATS architecture, but they are often not digitally-signed artifacts, and are often conveyed out of band, sometimes via a website or even via a paper certificate and so they are out of scope for the wire format specified in this document.

As such, the attestation data format defined in this document does not capture the full functionality of the RATS architecture. If a device producing evidence in the specified format requires to also carry nested attestation statements or endorsements, then it must be achieved by placing the attestation from this draft within another wrapper layer such as RATS Conceptual Message Wrapper (CMW) [I-D.ietf-rats-msg-wrap-11].

TODO: for the RATS audience, we probably need to clarify what exactly an "Application Key" is. Add to glossary? Potentially we need a Use Cases section: CA keys, TLS keys, etc.

Crypto Module Platform environment Application Keys measurements Attestation Service Attestation PKIX Request Attestation Usage Protocol Presenter Recipient
Figure 1: Architecture

Figure 1 depicts a typical workflow where an external tool queries the HSM for the status of one or more cryptographic keys that it is protecting ("Application Keys"). The "Presenter" may be, for example, a command-line or graphical user interface which will display the evidence to an operator or auditor; a cryptographic library which will include the evidence in a CSR for transmission to a Certification Authority; a TLS library which will include the evidence in at attested TLS session [I-D.fossati-tls-attestation]; or similar applications, refered to as the "Usage Protocol".

This model does not assume any internal structure or logical separation within the HSM except for the existence of some kind of attestation service which may or may not be logically separate from the overall HSM Root of Trust, and that this attestation service measures the required evidence about both the hardware environment and the application keys that are being attested. In addition to emitting key attestation evidence, an HSM may also need to parse it, for example when running in an operational mode that only allows importing keys from other HSMs at a comparable security level (requires checking for specific claims) or within the same operational network (requires checking the trust anchor of the attestation key certificate chain). This implies that the attestation service needs to be part of the core HSM "kernel" and therefore would be subject to validations such as FIPS 140-3 or Common Criteria, which motivates a design requirement to keep the evidence data format as simple as possible and as close as possible to existing functionality and data models of existing HSM and TPM products. As such, the information model presented in Section 4 will feel familiar to implementers with experience with PKI and PKCS#11.

3.1. Attestation Key Certificate Chain

The data format in this specification represents self-attested evidence and therefore requires third-party endorsement in order to establish trust. This endorsement comes in the form of an X.509 certificate chain where the SubjectPublicKey of the leaf certificate is the HSM's attestation key (AK) which signs the evidence, and this AK certificate chains to a trust anchor which is trusted by the Recipient as authoritative to vouch for the authenticity of the device. In practice the trust anchor will usually be a manufacturing CA belonging to the device vendor which proves that the device is genuine and not counterfeit. The Trust Anchor can also belong to the device operator as would be the case when the AK certificate is replaced as part of on-boarding the device into a new operational network.

Note that the data format specified in Section 4 allows for zero, one, or multiple 'SignatureBlock's, so a single evidence statement could be un-protected, or could be endorsed by multiple AK chains leading to different trust anchors. See Section 6 for a discussion of handling multiple SignatureBlocks.

TODO: should this specification provide specific X.509 extensions that should be present in this AK Certificate to carry specific information about the device?

TODO: should CPS be mentioned here?

4. Data Model

This section describes the semantics of the key claims as part of the information model.

The envelop structure is:

PkixAttestation ::= SEQUENCE {
    tbs TbsPkixAttestation,
    signatures SEQUENCE SIZE (0..MAX) of SignatureBlock
}

TbsPkixAttestation ::= SEQUENCE {
    version INTEGER,
    reportedEntities SEQUENCE SIZE (1..MAX) OF ReportedEntity
}

SignatureBlock ::= SEQUENCE {
   certChain SEQUENCE of Certificate,
   signatureAlgorithm AlgorithmIdentifier,
   signatureValue OCTET STRING
}

A PkixAttestation message is composed of a protected section known as the To-Be-Signed or TBS. The integrity of the To-Be-Signed section is ensured with one or multiple cryptographic signatures over the content of the section. There is a provision to carry the X.509 certificates supporting the signature(s).

The TBS section is composed of a version number, to ensure future extensibility, and a number of reported entities. .

For compliance with this specification, TbsPkixAttestation.version MUST be 1. This envelope format is not extensible; future specifications which make compatibility-breaking changes MUST increment the version number.

SignatureBlock.certChain MUST contain at least one X.509 certificate as per [!RFC5280]. While there might exist attesting environments which use out-of-band or non-X.509 mechanisms for communicating the AK public key to the Verifier, these SHALL be considered non-compliant with this specification.

The attribute format is intended to be generic, flexible, and extensible with a default set of attributes defined in this document. Attributes are grouped into entities; an entity can be either a key, a platform, or a request containing a set of claims that are requested to be filled by the attesting environment.

ReportedEntity ::= SEQUENCE {
    entityType         OBJECT IDENTIFIER,
    reportedAttributes SEQUENCE SIZE (1..MAX) OF ReportedAttribute
}

A reported entity is a unit of observation measured by the Attester (the HSM). In this specification, there are three types of entities defined: - Platform Entity : An entity that reports attributes about the platform, itself. A PKIX Attestation MAY contain only one Platform Entity. - Key Entity : An entity that represents a single cryptographic key found in a HSM ad its associated attributes. A PKIX Attestation MAY contain one or more Key Entities. - Transaction Entity : An entity reporting attributes observed from the request itself. A PKIX Attestation MAY contain only one Transaction Entity.

A reported entity is composed of an Object Identifier (OID), specifying the entity type, and a sequence of reported attributes associated with the entity.

Although this specification defines only three types of entities, implementations MAY define additional entity types by registering additional OIDs.

An Attester (HSM) which is requested to provide information about unrecognized entity types MUST fail the operation.

A Verifier which encounters an unrecognized entity type MAY ignore it.

id-pkix-attest                    OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { 1 2 3 999 }
id-pkix-attest-entity-type        OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { id-pkix-attest 0 }
id-pkix-attest-entity-transaction OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { id-pkix-attest-entity-type 0 }
id-pkix-attest-entity-platform    OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { id-pkix-attest-entity-type 1 }
id-pkix-attest-entity-key         OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { id-pkix-attest-entity-type 2 }
id-pkix-attest-entity-request     OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { id-pkix-attest-entity-type 3 }

TODO: do we need entity types for "platform policy" and "key policy" ?

A PKIX Attestation MUST NOT contain more than one platform entity. A PKIX Attestation containing more than one platform entity is considered a fatal error by a parser since duplicate and conflicting platform claims across multiple platform entities can easily lead to security bugs.

A PKIX Attestation MAY contain one or more application key entities. Each key entity SHOULD describe a unique application key. Multiple ReportedEntity objects of type entity-key that describe the same application key SHOULD be avoided since different or conflicting claims could lead to security issues on the part of the Verifier or Relying Party.

TODO: note that we need to be careful about whether it is allowed to include the AK(s) and other "platform-owned" keys in the set of keys you can attest, or only attesting application keys.

A PKIX Attestation can contain at most one transaction entity. A transaction entity contains attributes that are related to the request such as a "nonce". Attributes associated with the request do not belong with any other entities and should be reported as part of the transaction entity.

Each reported attribute is composed of an Object Identifier (OID), identifying the type of the attribute, and a value which must be one of the prescribed data types.

ReportedAttribute ::= SEQUENCE {
    attributeType      OBJECT IDENTIFIER,
    value              OPTIONAL AttributeValue
}

AttributeValue :== CHOICE {
   bytes       [0] IMPLICIT OCTET STRING,
   asciiString [1] IMPLICIT IA5String,
   utf8String  [2] IMPLICIT UTF8String,
   bool        [3] IMPLICIT BOOLEAN,
   time        [4] IMPLICIT GeneralizedTime,
   int         [5] IMPLICIT INTEGER,
   oid         [6] IMPLICIT OBJECT IDENTIFIER
}

An attribute type is generally associated with a single entity type. In the following sub-sections, defined attributes are grouped according to their related entity types.

There are circumstances where an attribute type can be repeated for a given entity while other attribute types are unique. For example, the identifier for a key entity (key identifier) should not be repeated as this is a unique value. However, other attribute types could be interpreted as a "set". Therefore, this specification is not constraining the number of times a particular attribute type is encountered within an entity.

A Verifier is responsible of ensuring the consistency of the recognized attributes reported for a given entity. Ultimately, a Verifier is responsible for providing attestation results to a Relying Party. Therefore, the Verifier should be constructed in such a way as to extract the relevant information for this Relying Party.

4.1. Attestation Requests

EDNOTE: MikeO: this is complex, but I'm not really sure how to define a request format in any simpler way. Ideas are welcome!

This section specifies a standardized format that a Presenter can use to request a PKIX Attestation about a specific key or set of keys, a specific environment, or containing specific attributes.

Hardware Security Modules range greatly in size and complexity from personal cryptographic tokens containing a single application key such as a smartcard acting as a personal ID card, up to clusters of enterprise-grade HSMs serving an entire cloud service.

The manufacturer of a HSM device with limited capabilities may implement a response to the attestation request which includes a fixed set of reported entities, each with a fixed set of reported attributes and parses an Attesttion Request object only for the purposes of extracting the nonce.

On the other hand, an enterprise grade HSM with the capability to hold a large number of private keys is expected to be capable of parsing attestation requests such that a Presenter can request attestation of specific key(s) by their identifier, or requesting attestation of all keys in a given environment with the given key attributes. A full implementation will also create a PKIX Attestation containing exactly the requested attributes so that the Presenter can fine-tune the information that it wishes to disclose to the Recipient.

A PKIX Attestation Request consists of a TbsPkixAttestation object containing a single ReportedEntity identified with id-pkix-attest-entity-request, called a request entity. A TbsPkixAttestation containing a request entity MUST NOT contain any other type of entities. Request entities MAY contain Attributes of any type; transaction, platform, key, or any additional attribute type. Any attribute contained in a request entity is called a request attribute.

An Attester that supports Attestation Requests MUST, at the minimum, support extracting the value from a nonce attribute and echoing it into a nonce attribute within a TransactionEntity.

Some request attributes contain a value that the HSM uses as a filter or search parameter in constructing the PKIX Attestation; these are called valued requests attributes. Other requests attributes omit the optional value field so that they consist of only the attribute type OID and indicate that the HSM SHOULD collect and return the appropriate measurement; these are called un-valued request attributes. An Attester SHOULD return a PKIX Attestation containing exactly the set of attributes listed in the request, including both valued and un-valued request attributes but MAY omit requested attributes if it cannot be measured in the current device configuration. Note that an Attestation Request will contain all request attributes inside a single request entity, but the HSM MUST sort the attributes in the response PKIX Attestation into the appropriate entity types. For example, if the request contains the key purpose attribute (either valued or un-valued), then all returned key entities MUST contain the purpose attribute when this data is available for the given key. The tables in the following sections indicate whether an attribute of the given type MUST, MAY, or MUST NOT contain a value when included in a request entity.

Generally errors should be handled gracefully by simply omitting an unfulfillable request attribute from the response. An example would be if the hwserial attribute was requested but the devices does not have a serial number. However in some cases a fatal error MAY be returned, for example if attestation of a specific key is requested by key identifier or SubjectPublicKeyInfo but the HSM does not contain a matching key. HSMs SHOULD ignore request attributes with unrecognized type OIDs.

Generally, the Attester SHOULD NOT include additional attributes beyond those that were requested. This is to allow the Presenter to fine-tune the information that will be disclosed to the Recipient. Further privacy concerns are discussed in {#sec-cons-privacy}. However, in some contexts this MAY be appropriate, for example, a request containing only a key identifier attribute could be responded to with the full set of platform and key attributes that apply to that key. Discretion is left to implementers.

For both error handling and privacy reasons, the Presenter SHOULD check that the returned PKIX Attestation contains the expected attributes prior to forwarding it to the Recipient.

4.2. Transaction Attributes

A default and vendor-agnostic set of transaction attributes is defined in this section.

These attribute types MAY be contained within a transaction entity; i.e. an entity identified by id-pkix-attest-entity-transaction.

Table 1
Attribute AttributeValue Reference Multiple Allowed Request Contains a Value Description
nonce bytes RFCthis No MUST Repeats a "nonce" provided during the atttestation request.
timestamp time [I-D.ietf-rats-eat] No MUST NOT The time at which this attestation was generated. Corresponds to EAT IAT claim.

4.2.1. nonce

The nonce attribute is used to provide "freshness" quality as to the information provided by the Attester (HSM) in the PkixAttestation message. A client requesting a PkixAttestation message MAY provide a nonce value as part of the request. This nonce value, if provided, SHOULD be repeated as an attribute to the transaction entity.

4.2.2. time

The time at which this attestation was generated, according to the internal system clock of the HSM.

Note that it is common for HSMs to not have an accurate system clock; consider an HSM for a root CA kept offline and booted up infrequently in an local network segregated from all other network, or a smart card which boots up only when held against an NFC reader. Implementers of emitters SHOULD include this attribute only if the device reliably knows its own time (for example has had recent contact with an NTP server). Implementers of parsers SHOULD be wary of trusting the contents of this attribute. A challenge-response protocol that makes use of the nonce attribute is a far more reliable way of establishing freshness.

4.3. Platform Attributes

A default and vendor-agnostic set of platform attributes is defined in this section.

These attribute types MAY be contained within a platform entity; i.e. an entity identified by id-pkix-attest-entity-platform.

Table 2
Attribute AttributeValue Reference Multiple Allowed Request Contains a Value Description
vendor utf8String RFCthis No MUST NOT A human-readable string by which the vendor identifies themself.
oemid bytes [I-D.ietf-rats-eat] No MUST NOT The EAT OEM ID as defined in [I-D.ietf-rats-eat].
hwmodel utf8String [I-D.ietf-rats-eat] No MUST NOT Model or product line of the hardware module.
hwserial asciiString RFCthis No MUST NOT Serial number of the hardware module, often matches the number engraved or stickered on the case.
swversion asciiString [I-D.ietf-rats-eat] No MUST NOT A text string identifying the firmware or software running on the HSM.
dbgstat int [I-D.ietf-rats-eat] No MUST NOT Indicates whether the HSM is currently in a debug state, or is capable in the future of being turned to a debug state. Semantics and integer codes are defined in [I-D.ietf-rats-eat].
uptime int [I-D.ietf-rats-eat] No MUST NOT Contains the number of seconds that have elapsed since the entity was last booted.
bootcount int [I-D.ietf-rats-eat] No MUST NOT Contains a count of the number of times the entity has been booted.
usermods utf8String RFCthis Yes MUST NOT This attribute lists user modules currently loaded onto the HSM in a human readable format, preferabbly JSON.
fipsboot bool [FIPS.140-3] No MUST NOT Indicates whether the devices is currently running in FIPS mode.
envid asciiString RFCthis Yes MAY An environment ID, which will typically be a URI, UUID, or similar.
envdesc utf8String RFCthis Yes MUST NOT Further description of the environment.

TODO: find the actual reference for "FIPS Mode" -- FIPS 140-3 does not define it (at least not the 11 page useless version of 140-3 that I found).

Each attribute has an assigned OID, see Section 8.

Some of the attributes defined in this specification have further details below.

4.3.1. usermods

Most HSMs have some concept of trusted execution environment where user software modules can be loaded inside the HSM to run with some level of privileged access to the application keys. This attribute lists user modules currently loaded onto the HSM in a human readable format, preferably JSON.

4.3.2. fipsboot

FIPS 140-3 CMVP validation places stringent requirements on the cryptography offered by the module, including only enabling FIPS-approved algorithms, certain requirements on entropy sources, and extensive start-up self-tests. Many HSMs include a configuration setting that allows the device to be taken out of FIPS mode and thus enable additional functionality or performance.

This boolean attribute indicates whether the device is currently operating in FIPS mode. For most HSMs, changing this configuration setting from fipsboot=true to fips-boos=false is destructive and will result in zeroization of all cryptographic keys held within the module.

Whether the device is currently running in FIPS mode is completely independent from whether the device has a valid and active FIPS CMVP certification. For example, some devices may have a FIPS mode configuration, and some operators may choose to enable it, even if that particular model was never submitted for certification. In fact, the device has no way to know whether it has an active certification or not. This information is available on the NIST CMVP website or by contacting the device vendor.

4.3.3. envid

An identifier for an environment to which the attested keys belong. These will be an a vendor-chosen format, but are constrained to ASCII as URIs, UUID, and similar types of identifiers are envisioned.

There MAY be multiple envid attributes if the attested keys simultaneously belong to multiple environments.

Note that by including envid as a Platform Attribute, this implies that it applies to all attested key entities. If the HSM needs to attest multiple keys across multiple disjoint environments, then multiple PKIXAttestations are required. This naturally enforces privacy constraints of only attesting a single environment at a time.

If an envdid request attribute contains a value, this means that the Presenter is requesting that only keys belogning to the given environment be included in the returned attestation.

4.3.4. envdesc

Further description of the environment beyond hwvendor, hwmodel, hwserial, swversion; for example if there is a need to describe multiple logical partitions within the same device. Contents could be a human-readable description or other identifiers.

4.4. Key Attributes

A default and vendor-agnostic set of key attributes is defined in this section.

These attribute types MAY be contained within a key entity; i.e. an entity identified by id-pkix-attest-entity-key.

Table 3
Attribute AttributeValue Reference Multiple Allowed Request Contains a Value Description
identifier utf8String RFCthis Yes MAY Identifies the subject key, with a vendor-specific format which could be numeric, UUID, or other textual identifier.
spki bytes RFCthis No MAY A complete DER-encoded SubjectPublicKeyInfo representing the public key associated with the asymetric key pair being attested.
purpose bytes [PKCS11] No MAY Defines the intended usage for the key.
extractable bool [PKCS11] No MAY Indicates if the key is able to be exported from the module. Corresponds directly to PKCS#11 CKA_EXTRACTABLE.
never-extractable bool [PKCS11] No MAY Indicates if the key was able to be exported from the module. Corresponds directly to PKCS#11 CKA_NEVER_EXTRACTABLE.
local bool RFCthis No MAY Indicates whether the key was generated locally or imported.
expiry time RFCthis No MAY Defines the expiry date or "not after" time for the key.
protection bytes RFCthis No MAY Indicates any additional key protection properties.

4.4.1. purpose

TODO: probably need to define a mapping from PKCS#11 CKA enums to a bit-indexed byte array.

4.4.2. protection

Indicates any additional key protection properties around use or modification of this key. These are generalized properties and will not apply the same way to all HSM vendors. Consult vendor documentation for the in-context meaning of these flags.

TODO: define a bit-indexed byte array

BIT MASK / Boolean Array {DualControl (0), CardControl (1), PasswordControl (2), ...}

We may need to say that the first X are reserved for use by future RFCs that update this specification, and beyond that is private use.

4.5. Additional Entity and Attribute Types

It is expected that HSM vendors will register additional Entity and Attribute types by assigning OIDs from their own proprietary OID arcs to hold data describing additional proprietary key properties.

An Attester (HSM) which is requested to provide information about unrecognized Entity or Attribute types MUST fail the operation.

A Verifier which encounters an unrecognized Entity or Attribute type MAY ignore it.

4.6. Encoding

A PKIXAttestation is to be DER encoded [X.690].

If a textual representation is required, then the DER encoding MAY be subsequently encoded into Base64.

EDNOTE: I think we have to be precise about which flavour of Base64 we are referrring to.

5. Signing Procedure

The SignatureBlock.signatureValue signs over the DER-encoded to-be-signed attestation data PkixAttestation.tbs and MUST be validated with the subject public key of the leaf X.509 certificate contained in the SignatureBlock.certChain.

6. Verification Procedure

The SignatureBlock.signatureValue signs over the DER-encoded to-be-signed attestation data PkixAttestation.tbs and MUST be validated with the subject public key of the leaf X.509 certificate contained in the SignatureBlock.certChain.

Note that a PkixAttestation MAY contain zero or more SignatureBlocks. A PkixAttestation with zero SignatureBlocks is unsigned, MUST be treated as un-protected and un-trusted, and any signature validation procedure MUST fail.

More than one SignatureBlocks MAY be used to convey a number of different semantics. For example, the HSM's Attesting Service might hold multiple Attestation Keys on different cryptographic algorithms in order to provide algorithm redundancy in the case that one algorithm becomes cryptographically broken. In this case a Verifier would be expected to validate all SignatureBlocks. Alternatively, the HSM's Attesting Service may hold multiple Attestion Keys (or multiple X.509 certificates for the same key) from multiple operational environments to which it belongs. In this case a Verifier would be expected to only validate the SignatureBlock corresponding to its own environment. Alternatively, multiple SignatureBlocks could be used to convey counter-signatures from external parties, in which case the Verifier will need to be equipped with environment-specific verification logic. Multiple of these cases, and potentially others, could be present in a single PkixAttestation object.

Note that each SignatureBlock is a fully detached signature over the tbs content with no binding between the signed content and the SignatureBlocks, or between SignatureBlocks, meaning that a third party can add a counter-signature of the evidence after the fact, or an attacker can remove a SignatureBlock without leaving any artifact. See {#sec-detached-sigs} for further discussion.

7. Appraisal Policies and Profiles

This section provides some sample profiles of appraisal policies that verifiers MAY apply when evaluating evidence. These appraisal profiles represent environment-specific requirements on the contents of the evidence and / or endorsement certificate chain.

7.1. Key Import into an HSM

An HSM which is compliant with this draft SHOULD validate any PKIX Key Attestations that are provided along with the key being imported.

The SignatureBlocks MUST be validated and MUST chain to a trust anchor known to the HSM. In most cases this will be the same trust anchor that endorsed the HSMs own AK, but the HSM MAY be configured with set of third party trust anchors from which it will accept key attestations.

If the HSM is operating in FIPS Mode, then it MUST only import keys from HSMs also operating in FIPS Mode.

The claims key-purpose, key-extractable, key-never-extractable, key-local MUST be checked and honoured during key import, which typically means that after import, the key MUST NOT claim a stronger protection property than it had on the previous hardware. In other words, Key Attestation allows and requires that key protection properties be preserved over export / import operations between different HSMs, and this format provides a vendor-agnostic way to acheive this.

How to handle errors is outside the scope of this specification and is left to implementors; for example the key import MAY be aborted, or a prompt MAY be given to the user administrator, or any similar reasonable error handling logic.

7.2. CA/Browser Forum Code-Signing

TODO: ... intro text

The subscriber MUST:

  • Provide the CA with a CSR containing the subscriber key.

  • Provide an attestation token as per this specification describing the private key protection properties of the subscriber's private key. This token MAY be transported inside the CSR as per draft-ietf-lamps-csr-attest, or it MAY be transported adjacent to the CSR over any other certificate enrollment mechanism.

The CA / RA / RP / Verifier MUST:

  • Ensure that the subscriber key which is the subject of the CSR is also described by a KAT by matching either the key fingerprint or full SubjectPublicKeyInfo.

  • The hardware root-of-trust described by a PAT has a valid and active FIPS certificate according to the NIST CMVP database.

  • The attestation signing key (AK) which has signed the attestation token chains to a root certificate that A) belongs to the hardware vendor described in the PAT token, and B) is trusted by the CA / RA / RP / Verifier to endorse hardware from this vendor, for example through a CA's partner program or through a network operator's device on-boarding process.

  • The key is protected by a module running in FIPS mode. The parsing logic is to start at the leaf KAT token that matches the key in the CSR and parsing towards the root PAT ensuring that there is at least one fipsboot=true and no fipsboot=false on that path.

8. ASN.1 Module

<CODE STARTS>

PKIX-Key-Attest-2025
      { iso(1) identified-organization(3) dod(6) internet(1)
        security(5) mechanisms(5) pkix(7) id-mod(0)
        id-mod-pkik-key-attest-2025(TBDMOD) }


PkixAttestation ::= SEQUENCE {
    tbs TbsPkixAttestation,
    signatures SEQUENCE SIZE (0..MAX) of SignatureBlock
}

TbsPkixAttestation ::= SEQUENCE {
    version INTEGER,
    reportedEntities SEQUENCE SIZE (1..MAX) OF ReportedEntity
}

ReportedEntity ::= SEQUENCE {
    entityType         OBJECT IDENTIFIER,
    reportedAttributes SEQUENCE SIZE (1..MAX) OF ReportedAttribute
}

ReportedAttribute ::= SEQUENCE {
    attributeType      OBJECT IDENTIFIER,
    value              AttributeValue
}

AttributeValue :== CHOICE {
   bytes       [0] IMPLICIT OCTET STRING,
   asciiString [1] IMPLICIT IA5String,
   utf8String  [2] IMPLICIT UTF8String,
   bool        [3] IMPLICIT BOOLEAN,
   time        [4] IMPLICIT GeneralizedTime,
   int         [5] IMPLICIT INTEGER,
   oid         [6] IMPLICIT OBJECT IDENTIFIER
}

SignatureBlock ::= SEQUENCE {
   certChain SEQUENCE of Certificate,
   signatureAlgorithm AlgorithmIdentifier,
   signatureValue OCTET STRING
}

id-pkix-attest OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { 1 2 3 999 }

id-pkix-attest-entity-type        OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { id-pkix-attest 0 }
id-pkix-attest-entity-transaction OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { id-pkix-attest-entity-type 0 }
id-pkix-attest-entity-platform    OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { id-pkix-attest-entity-type 1 }
id-pkix-attest-entity-key         OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { id-pkix-attest-entity-type 2 }

id-pkix-attest-attribute-type OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { id-pkix-attest 1 }

id-pkix-attest-attribute-transaction       OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { id-pkix-attest-attribute-type 0 }
id-pkix-attest-attribute-transaction-nonce OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { id-pkix-attest-attribute-transaction 0 }

id-pkix-attest-attribute-platform            OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { id-pkix-attest-attribute-type 1 }
id-pkix-attest-attribute-platform-vendor     OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { id-pkix-attest-attribute-platform 0 }
id-pkix-attest-attribute-platform-hwserial   OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { id-pkix-attest-attribute-platform 1 }
id-pkix-attest-attribute-platform-fipsboot   OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { id-pkix-attest-attribute-platform 2 }
id-pkix-attest-attribute-platform-desc       OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { id-pkix-attest-attribute-platform 3 }
id-pkix-attest-attribute-platform-time       OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { id-pkix-attest-attribute-platform 4 }
id-pkix-attest-attribute-platform-swversion  OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { id-pkix-attest-attribute-platform 5 }
id-pkix-attest-attribute-platform-oemid      OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { id-pkix-attest-attribute-platform 6 }
id-pkix-attest-attribute-platform-debugstat  OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { id-pkix-attest-attribute-platform 7 }
id-pkix-attest-attribute-platform-uptime     OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { id-pkix-attest-attribute-platform 8 }
id-pkix-attest-attribute-platform-bootcount  OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { id-pkix-attest-attribute-platform 9 }
id-pkix-attest-attribute-platform-usermods   OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { id-pkix-attest-attribute-platform 8 }
id-pkix-attest-attribute-platform-envid    OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { id-pkix-attest-attribute-platform 9 }
id-pkix-attest-attribute-platform-envdesc    OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { id-pkix-attest-attribute-platform 10 }


id-pkix-attest-attribute-key                   OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { id-pkix-attest-attribute-type 2 }
id-pkix-attest-attribute-key-identifier        OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { id-pkix-attest-attribute-key 0 }
id-pkix-attest-attribute-key-spki              OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { id-pkix-attest-attribute-key 1 }
id-pkix-attest-attribute-key-purpose           OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { id-pkix-attest-attribute-key 2 }
id-pkix-attest-attribute-key-extractable       OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { id-pkix-attest-attribute-key 3 }
id-pkix-attest-attribute-key-never-extractable OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { id-pkix-attest-attribute-key 4 }
id-pkix-attest-attribute-key-local             OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { id-pkix-attest-attribute-key 5 }
id-pkix-attest-attribute-key-expiry            OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { id-pkix-attest-attribute-key 6 }
id-pkix-attest-attribute-key-protection        OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { id-pkix-attest-attribute-key 7 }

<CODE ENDS>

9. IANA Considerations

Please replace "RFCthis" with the RFC number assigned to this document.

TODO: list out all the OIDs that need IANA registration.

10. Security Considerations

A Verifier MAY reject a PKIX Attestation if it lacks required attributes per their appraisal policy. For example, if a Relying Party mandates a FIPS-certified device, it SHOULD reject evidence lacking sufficient information to verify the device's FIPS certification status.

10.1. Simple to implement

The nature of attestation requires the attestation service to be implemented in an extremely privileged position within the HSM so that it can collect measurements of both the hardware environment and the application keys being attested. For many HSM and TPM architectures, this will place the Attestation Service inside the "HSM kernel" and potentially subject to FIPS 140-3 or Common Criteria validation and change control. For both security and compliance reasons there is incentive for the emitting and parsing logic to be simple and easy to implement correctly. Additionally, when the data formats contained in this specification are parsed within an HSM boundary -- that would be parsing a request entity, or parsing an attestation produced by a different HSM -- implementers SHOULD opt for simple logic that rejects any data that does not match the expected format instead of attempting to be flexible.

In particular, Attesting Services SHOULD generate the attestation object from scratch and avoid copying any content from the request. Attesting Services MUST NOT allow unrecognized attributes or any attribute value other than the nonce to be echoed from the request into the attestation object.

10.2. Detached Signatures

TODO beef this up

No indication within the tbs content about what or how many signatures to expect.

A SignatureBlock can be trivially stripped off without leaving any evidence.

When multiple SignatureBlocks are used for providing third party counter-signatures, note that the counter signature only covers the tbs content and not existing SignatureBlocks.

10.3. Privacy

Often, a TPM will host cryptographic keys for an entire operating system but a Presenter only represents a single user or application. Similarly, a single Hardware Security Module will often host cryptographic keys for an entire multi-tenant cloud service and the Presenter or Recipient belongs only to a single tenant. In these cases, disclosing even the existance of a given key, let alone its attributes, to an unauthorized party would constitute an egregious privacy violation. Implementions SHOULD be careful to avoid over-disclosure of information, for example by authenticating the Presenter and only returning results for keys and envirnments for which it is authorized, and by supporting request attributes that can be used as filters to allow the Presenter to request a key attestation containing only content that is appropriate for the intended Recipient.

11. References

11.1. Normative References

[I-D.ietf-rats-eat]
Lundblade, L., Mandyam, G., O'Donoghue, J., and C. Wallace, "The Entity Attestation Token (EAT)", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-rats-eat-31, , <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-rats-eat-31>.
[PKCS11]
OASIS PKCS 11 TC, "PKCS #11 Specification Version 3.1", n.d., <https://docs.oasis-open.org/pkcs11/pkcs11-spec/v3.1/csd01/pkcs11-spec-v3.1-csd01.html>.
[RFC2119]
Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2119>.
[RFC8174]
Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8174>.
[RFC8949]
Bormann, C. and P. Hoffman, "Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)", STD 94, RFC 8949, DOI 10.17487/RFC8949, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8949>.
[RFC9334]
Birkholz, H., Thaler, D., Richardson, M., Smith, N., and W. Pan, "Remote ATtestation procedureS (RATS) Architecture", RFC 9334, DOI 10.17487/RFC9334, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9334>.
[X.680]
ITU-T, "Information technology -- Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1): Specification of basic notation", n.d., <https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-X.680>.
[X.690]
ITU-T, "Information technology - ASN.1 encoding Rules: Specification of Basic Encoding Rules (BER), Canonical Encoding Rules (CER) and Distinguished Encoding Rules (DER)", ISO/IEC 8825-1:2015, .

11.2. Informative References

[I-D.bft-rats-kat]
Brossard, M., Fossati, T., Tschofenig, H., and H. Birkholz, "An EAT-based Key Attestation Token", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-bft-rats-kat-05, , <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-bft-rats-kat-05>.
[I-D.fossati-tls-attestation]
Tschofenig, H., Sheffer, Y., Howard, P., Mihalcea, I., Deshpande, Y., Niemi, A., and T. Fossati, "Using Attestation in Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS)", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-fossati-tls-attestation-08, , <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-fossati-tls-attestation-08>.
[I-D.ietf-lamps-csr-attestation]
Ounsworth, M., Tschofenig, H., Birkholz, H., Wiseman, M., and N. Smith, "Use of Remote Attestation with Certification Signing Requests", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-lamps-csr-attestation-16, , <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-lamps-csr-attestation-16>.
[I-D.ietf-rats-msg-wrap]
Birkholz, H., Smith, N., Fossati, T., Tschofenig, H., and D. Glaze, "RATS Conceptual Messages Wrapper (CMW)", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-rats-msg-wrap-11, , <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-rats-msg-wrap-11>.
[RFC2986]
Nystrom, M. and B. Kaliski, "PKCS #10: Certification Request Syntax Specification Version 1.7", RFC 2986, DOI 10.17487/RFC2986, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2986>.
[RFC4211]
Schaad, J., "Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate Request Message Format (CRMF)", RFC 4211, DOI 10.17487/RFC4211, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4211>.
[RFC5912]
Hoffman, P. and J. Schaad, "New ASN.1 Modules for the Public Key Infrastructure Using X.509 (PKIX)", RFC 5912, DOI 10.17487/RFC5912, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5912>.

Appendix A. Samples

TODO

A reference implementation of this specification can be found at https://github.com/hannestschofenig/keyattestation

It produces the following sample attestation:

PkixAttestation:
 tbs=TbsPkixAttestation:
  version=2
  reportedEntities=SequenceOf:
   ReportedEntity:
    entityType=1.2.3.999.0.0
    reportedAttributes=SequenceOf:
     ReportedAttribute:
      attributeType=1.2.3.999.1.0.0
      value=AttributeValue:
       bytes=0102030405


   ReportedEntity:
    entityType=1.2.3.999.0.1
    reportedAttributes=SequenceOf:
     ReportedAttribute:
      attributeType=1.2.3.999.1.1.0
      value=AttributeValue:
       utf8String=HSM-123

     ReportedAttribute:
      attributeType=1.2.3.999.1.1.1
      value=AttributeValue:
       bool=True

     ReportedAttribute:
      attributeType=1.2.3.999.1.1.2
      value=AttributeValue:
       utf8String=Model ABC

     ReportedAttribute:
      attributeType=1.2.3.999.1.1.4
      value=AttributeValue:
       utf8String=3.1.9

     ReportedAttribute:
      attributeType=1.2.3.999.1.1.3
      value=AttributeValue:
       time=202502032234Z


   ReportedEntity:
    entityType=1.2.3.999.0.2
    reportedAttributes=SequenceOf:
     ReportedAttribute:
      attributeType=1.2.3.999.1.2.0
      value=AttributeValue:
       utf8String=26d765d8-1afd-4dfb-a290-cf867ddecfa1

     ReportedAttribute:
      attributeType=1.2.3.999.1.2.3
      value=AttributeValue:
       bool=False

     ReportedAttribute:
      attributeType=1.2.3.999.1.2.1
      value=AttributeValue:
       bytes=0x3059301306072a8648ce3d020106082a8648ce3d03010703420004422548f88fb782ffb5eca3744452c72a1e558fbd6f73be5e48e93232cc45c5b16c4cd10c4cb8d5b8a17139e94882c8992572993425f41419ab7e90a42a494272


   ReportedEntity:
    entityType=1.2.3.999.0.2
    reportedAttributes=SequenceOf:
     ReportedAttribute:
      attributeType=1.2.3.999.1.2.0
      value=AttributeValue:
       utf8String=49a96ace-e39a-4fd2-bec1-13165a99621c

     ReportedAttribute:
      attributeType=1.2.3.999.1.2.3
      value=AttributeValue:
       bool=True

     ReportedAttribute:
      attributeType=1.2.3.999.1.2.1
      value=AttributeValue:
       bytes=0x3059301306072a8648ce3d020106082a8648ce3d03010703420004422548f88fb782ffb5eca3744452c72a1e558fbd6f73be5e48e93232cc45c5b16c4cd10c4cb8d5b8a17139e94882c8992572993425f41419ab7e90a42a494272


   ReportedEntity:
    entityType=1.2.3.888.0
    reportedAttributes=SequenceOf:
     ReportedAttribute:
      attributeType=1.2.3.888.1
      value=AttributeValue:
       utf8String=partition 1




 signatures=SequenceOf:
  SignatureBlock:
   certChain=SequenceOf:
    Certificate:
     tbsCertificate=TBSCertificate:
      version=v3
      serialNumber=510501933685942792810365453374472870755160518925
      signature=AlgorithmIdentifier:
       algorithm=1.2.840.113549.1.1.11
       parameters=0x0500

      issuer=Name:
       rdnSequence=RDNSequence:
        RelativeDistinguishedName:
         AttributeTypeAndValue:
          type=2.5.4.10
          value=0x0c0449455446
        RelativeDistinguishedName:
         AttributeTypeAndValue:
          type=2.5.4.11
          value=0x0c0452415453
        RelativeDistinguishedName:
         AttributeTypeAndValue:
          type=2.5.4.3
          value=0x0c06414b20525341


      validity=Validity:
       notBefore=Time:
        utcTime=250117171303Z

       notAfter=Time:
        generalTime=20520604171303Z


      subject=Name:
       rdnSequence=RDNSequence:
        RelativeDistinguishedName:
         AttributeTypeAndValue:
          type=2.5.4.10
          value=0x0c0449455446
        RelativeDistinguishedName:
         AttributeTypeAndValue:
          type=2.5.4.11
          value=0x0c0452415453
        RelativeDistinguishedName:
         AttributeTypeAndValue:
          type=2.5.4.3
          value=0x0c06414b20525341


      subjectPublicKeyInfo=SubjectPublicKeyInfo:
       algorithm=AlgorithmIdentifier:
        algorithm=1.2.840.113549.1.1.1
        parameters=0x0500

       subjectPublicKey=31795268810366627125468059984427145931784542919710733587190808152893606542214208096328883077225607136393362795609997601968312039001251339428349101203532726047646450301142882318337709398316574407647199690000689245113739552615279534528145776090813314822312012607567736073057936820713733090928849092672110937300300755561797808000438134839458043673852453722969649609202093945235393494912138691342219564365300965387743701570507112064401758218314760153081271981340812350365663466513620853326534252424706992841033652817461354632316129312597825542820569667842318342646457447037125609399476844336456206583416539426479221164971369788464727307915820767918489601

      extensions=Extensions:
       Extension:
        extnID=2.5.29.14
        critical=False
        extnValue=0x04148919595e0ef169f5cbbd47e134fce298cc693091
       Extension:
        extnID=2.5.29.35
        critical=False
        extnValue=0x301680148919595e0ef169f5cbbd47e134fce298cc693091
       Extension:
        extnID=2.5.29.19
        critical=True
        extnValue=0x30030101ff


     signatureAlgorithm=AlgorithmIdentifier:
      algorithm=1.2.840.113549.1.1.11
      parameters=0x0500

     signature=12977775424631768289542539102653382982431795551146145281750189553757940982572813264428982985997740595878077027853994515775116752030963858469651548765808775269857271167748512795017916284867051302884465315751010913658016640170608413935780119349866986170148033301955753116984041271273907756544780231564646860424999020990745523383622980115200446260103173103500647838758197610238552349053064525420240826193553395378873725256584269666918504793674497748455574822238022085054752185687440807655337724821853332688158460379554906105417720665175648371832825939577039874730442790337726004105878168375998123110331993348833629325492

   signatureAlgorithm=AlgorithmIdentifier:
    algorithm=1.2.840.113549.1.1.10
    parameters=RSASSA_PSS_params:
     hashAlgorithm=AlgorithmIdentifier:
      algorithm=2.16.840.1.101.3.4.2.1

     maskGenAlgorithm=AlgorithmIdentifier:
      algorithm=1.2.840.113549.1.1.8

     saltLength=20
     trailerField=1


   signatureValue=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
  SignatureBlock:
   certChain=SequenceOf:
    Certificate:
     tbsCertificate=TBSCertificate:
      version=v3
      serialNumber=43752118382009037811618748949928339462896457144
      signature=AlgorithmIdentifier:
       algorithm=1.2.840.10045.4.3.2

      issuer=Name:
       rdnSequence=RDNSequence:
        RelativeDistinguishedName:
         AttributeTypeAndValue:
          type=2.5.4.10
          value=0x0c0449455446
        RelativeDistinguishedName:
         AttributeTypeAndValue:
          type=2.5.4.11
          value=0x0c0452415453
        RelativeDistinguishedName:
         AttributeTypeAndValue:
          type=2.5.4.3
          value=0x0c07414b2050323536


      validity=Validity:
       notBefore=Time:
        utcTime=250117171428Z

       notAfter=Time:
        generalTime=20520604171428Z


      subject=Name:
       rdnSequence=RDNSequence:
        RelativeDistinguishedName:
         AttributeTypeAndValue:
          type=2.5.4.10
          value=0x0c0449455446
        RelativeDistinguishedName:
         AttributeTypeAndValue:
          type=2.5.4.11
          value=0x0c0452415453
        RelativeDistinguishedName:
         AttributeTypeAndValue:
          type=2.5.4.3
          value=0x0c07414b2050323536


      subjectPublicKeyInfo=SubjectPublicKeyInfo:
       algorithm=AlgorithmIdentifier:
        algorithm=1.2.840.10045.2.1
        parameters=0x06082a8648ce3d030107

       subjectPublicKey=57095560233504924588952816185508037812996307929249104847846164660564888397123390877585670462836285725041261897550020311481127562655774333675293173915140722

      extensions=Extensions:
       Extension:
        extnID=2.5.29.14
        critical=False
        extnValue=0x04145b70a79817f79ff637d2f7e3dc446c2109d7bbd4
       Extension:
        extnID=2.5.29.35
        critical=False
        extnValue=0x301680145b70a79817f79ff637d2f7e3dc446c2109d7bbd4
       Extension:
        extnID=2.5.29.19
        critical=True
        extnValue=0x30030101ff


     signatureAlgorithm=AlgorithmIdentifier:
      algorithm=1.2.840.10045.4.3.2

     signature=182167519797146035745575043154801415115532979136731128676399180692664821804883990401552040789643013103202424486088058364982966709324496782518079519267269438816178719668437

   signatureAlgorithm=AlgorithmIdentifier:
    algorithm=1.2.840.10045.2.1
    parameters=0x06082a8648ce3d030107

   signatureValue=0x304402201e7703f63bff951917714e5fa813de5265f151a6802165ef0be5f1fe6c91225b02200ad06b41a5062b07ff3ad37c7d112e19575f0e14a9750fe95e615550b88b5fed



DER Base64:
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Appendix B. Acknowledgements

This specification is the work of a design team created by the chairs of the RATS working group. This specification has been developed based on discussions in that design team and also with great amounts of input taken from discussions on the RATS mailing list.

Authors' Addresses

Mike Ounsworth
Entrust Limited
2500 Solandt Road – Suite 100
Ottawa, Ontario K2K 3G5
Canada
Jean-Pierre Fiset
Crypto4A Inc.
1550A Laperriere Ave
Ottawa, Ontario K1Z 7T2
Canada
Hannes Tschofenig
University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg
Germany
Henk Birkholz
Fraunhofer SIT
Monty Wiseman
Beyond Identity
United States of America
Ned Smith
Intel Corporation
United States of America