Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol

Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) is a simple protocol of recording of certificate developed by Cisco Systems. Its role is to automate the deployment of certificates X.509 on the materials network (typically of the footbridges VPN IPsec) within the framework of a Infrastructure to public keys existing. This protocol tends to being used more and more but it is not standardized yet by IETF: the specifications are still with the state of Internet draft.

SCEP follows an architecture Client-serveur where the customer ( requester ) is the entity to be certified. It is a simple protocol insofar as he proposes only four operations, encapsulated in HTTP. The customer authenticates his request of certificate (with the format PKCS #10) in a manual way or thanks to a pre-divided secrecy.

External bonds

  • the last version of draft SCEP (12/1/2006)

  • OpenSCEP: a free establishment software of the protocol

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