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<pre>Network Working Group                                      S. Boeyen
Request for Comments: 2559                                   Entrust
Updates: <a href="./rfc1778">1778</a>                                               T. Howes
Category: Standards Track                                   Netscape
                                                          P. Richard
                                                               Xcert
                                                          April 1999


                <span class="h1">Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure</span>
                     <span class="h1">Operational Protocols - LDAPv2</span>

Status of this Memo

   This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
   Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
   improvements.  Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
   Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
   and status of this protocol.  Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1999).  All Rights Reserved.

<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" id="section-1" href="#section-1">1</a>.  Abstract</span>

   The protocol described in this document is designed to satisfy some
   of the operational requirements within the Internet X.509 Public Key
   Infrastructure (IPKI).  Specifically, this document addresses
   requirements to provide access to Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
   repositories for the purposes of retrieving PKI information and
   managing that same information.  The mechanism described in this
   document is based on the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
   v2, defined in <a href="./rfc1777">RFC 1777</a>, defining a profile of that protocol for use
   within the IPKI and updates encodings for certificates and revocation
   lists from <a href="./rfc1778">RFC 1778</a>. Additional mechanisms addressing PKIX
   operational requirements are specified in separate documents.

   The key words 'MUST', 'REQUIRED', 'SHOULD', 'RECOMMENDED', and 'MAY'
   in this document are to be interpreted as described in <a href="./rfc2119">RFC 2119</a>.

<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" id="section-2" href="#section-2">2</a>.  Introduction</span>

   This specification is part of a multi-part standard for development
   of a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) for the Internet. This
   specification addresses requirements to provide retrieval of X.509
   PKI information, including certificates and CRLs from a repository.
   This specification also addresses requirements to add, delete and



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   modify PKI information in a repository. A profile based on the LDAP
   version 2 protocol is provided to satisfy these requirements.

<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" id="section-3" href="#section-3">3</a>.  Model</span>

   The PKI components, as defined in PKIX Part 1, which are involved in
   PKIX operational protocol interactions include:

      -  End Entities
      -  Certification Authorities (CA)
      -  Repository

   End entities and CAs using LDAPv2, retrieve PKI information from the
   repository using a subset of the LDAPv2 protocol.

   CAs populate the repository with PKI information using a subset of
   the LDAPv2 protocol.

<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" id="section-4" href="#section-4">4</a>.  Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)</span>

   The following sections examine the retrieval of PKI information from
   a repository and management of PKI information in a repository. A
   profile of the LDAPv2 protocol is defined for providing these
   services.

   <a href="#section-5">Section 5</a> satisfies the requirement to retrieve PKI information (a
   certificate, CRL, or other information of interest) from an entry in
   the repository, where the retrieving entity (either an end entity or
   a CA) has knowledge of the name of the entry. This is termed
   "repository read".

   <a href="#section-6">Section 6</a> satisfies the same requirement as 5 for the situation where
   the name of the entry is not known, but some other related
   information which may optionally be used as a filter against
   candidate entries in the repository, is known.  This is termed
   "repository search".

   <a href="#section-7">Section 7</a> satisfies the requirement of CAs to add, delete and modify
   PKI information information (a certificate, CRL, or other information
   of interest)in the repository. This is termed "repository modify".

   The subset of LDAPv2 needed to support each of these functions is
   described below.  Note that the repository search service is a
   superset of the repository read service in terms of the LDAPv2
   functionality needed.

   Note that all tags are implicit by default in the ASN.1 definitions
   that follow.



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<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" id="section-5" href="#section-5">5</a>.  LDAP Repository Read</span>

   To retrieve information from an entry corresponding to the subject or
   issuer name of a certificate, requires a subset of the following
   three LDAP operations:

     BindRequest (and BindResponse)
     SearchRequest (and SearchResponse)
     UnbindRequest

   The subset of each REQUIRED operation is given below.

<span class="h3"><a class="selflink" id="section-5.1" href="#section-5.1">5.1</a>.  Bind</span>

<span class="h4"><a class="selflink" id="section-5.1.1" href="#section-5.1.1">5.1.1</a>.  Bind Request</span>

   The full LDAP v2 Bind Request is defined in <a href="./rfc1777">RFC 1777</a>.

   An application providing a LDAP repository read service MUST
   implement the following subset of this operation:

      BindRequest ::=
        [APPLICATION 0] SEQUENCE {
           version      INTEGER (2),
           name         LDAPDN, -- MUST accept NULL LDAPDN
           simpleauth [0] OCTET STRING  -- MUST accept NULL simple
           }

   An application providing a LDAP repository read service MAY implement
   other aspects of the BindRequest as well.

   Different services may have different security requirements.  Some
   services may allow anonymous search, others may require
   authentication. Those services allowing anonymous search may choose
   only to allow search based on certain criteria and not others.

   A LDAP repository read service SHOULD implement some level of
   anonymous search access. A LDAP repository read service MAY implement
   authenticated search access.

<span class="h4"><a class="selflink" id="section-5.1.2" href="#section-5.1.2">5.1.2</a>.  Bind Response</span>

   The full LDAPv2 BindResponse is described in <a href="./rfc1777">RFC 1777</a>.

   An application providing a LDAP repository read service MUST
   implement this entire protocol element, though only the following
   error codes may be returned from a Bind operation:




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       success                      (0),
       operationsError              (1),
       protocolError                (2),
       authMethodNotSupported       (7),
       noSuchObject                 (32),
       invalidDNSyntax              (34),
       inappropriateAuthentication  (48),
       invalidCredentials           (49),
       busy                         (51),
       unavailable                  (52),
       unwillingToPerform           (53),
       other                        (80)

<span class="h3"><a class="selflink" id="section-5.2" href="#section-5.2">5.2</a>.  Search</span>

<span class="h4"><a class="selflink" id="section-5.2.1" href="#section-5.2.1">5.2.1</a>.  Search Request</span>

   The full LDAPv2 SearchRequest is defined in <a href="./rfc1777">RFC 1777</a>.

   An application providing a LDAP repository read service MUST
   implement the following subset of the SearchRequest.

      SearchRequest ::=
        [APPLICATION 3] SEQUENCE {
           baseObject     LDAPDN,
           scope             ENUMERATED {
                             baseObject   (0),
                                        },
           derefAliases   ENUMERATED {
                             neverDerefAliases   (0),
                                     },
           sizeLimit      INTEGER (0),
           timeLimit      INTEGER (0),
           attrsOnly      BOOLEAN, -- FALSE only
           filter         Filter,
           attributes     SEQUENCE OF AttributeType
                               }

      Filter ::=
        CHOICE {
          present        [7] AttributeType, -- "objectclass" only
                 }

   This subset of the LDAPv2 SearchRequest allows the LDAPv2 "read"
   operation: a base object search with a filter testing for the
   existence of the objectClass attribute.





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   An application providing a LDAP repository read service MAY implement
   other aspects of the SearchRequest as well.

5.2.2.

   The full LDAPv2 SearchResponse is defined in <a href="./rfc1777">RFC 1777</a>.

   An application providing a LDAP repository read service over LDAPv2
   MUST implement the full SearchResponse.

   Note that in the case of multivalued attributes such as
   userCertificate a SearchResponse containing this attribute will
   include all values, assuming the requester has sufficient access
   permissions.  The application/relying party may need to select an
   appropriate value to be used. Also note that retrieval of a
   certificate from a named entry does not guarantee that the
   certificate will include that same Distinguished Name (DN) and in
   some cases the subject DN in the certificate may be NULL.

<span class="h3"><a class="selflink" id="section-5.3" href="#section-5.3">5.3</a>.  Unbind</span>

   The full LDAPv2 UnbindRequest is defined in <a href="./rfc1777">RFC 1777</a>.

   An application providing a LDAP repository read service MUST
   implement the full UnbindRequest.

<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" id="section-6" href="#section-6">6</a>.  LDAP Repository Search</span>

   To search, using arbitrary criteria, for an entry in a repository
   containing a certificate, CRL, or other information of interest,
   requires a subset of the following three LDAP operations:

     BindRequest (and BindResponse)
     SearchRequest (and SearchResponse)
     UnbindRequest

   The subset of each operation REQUIRED is given below.

<span class="h3"><a class="selflink" id="section-6.1" href="#section-6.1">6.1</a>.  Bind</span>

   The BindRequest and BindResponse subsets needed are the same as those
   described in <a href="#section-5.1">Section 5.1</a>.

   The full LDAP v2 Bind Request is defined in <a href="./rfc1777">RFC 1777</a>.







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<span class="h3"><a class="selflink" id="section-6.2" href="#section-6.2">6.2</a>.  Search</span>

<span class="h4"><a class="selflink" id="section-6.2.1" href="#section-6.2.1">6.2.1</a>.  Search Request</span>

   The full LDAPv2 SearchRequest is defined in <a href="./rfc1777">RFC 1777</a>.

   An application providing a LDAP repository search service MUST
   implement the following subset of the SearchRequest protocol unit.

      SearchRequest ::=
        [APPLICATION 3] SEQUENCE {
           baseObject     LDAPDN,
           scope          ENUMERATED {
                               baseObject     (0),
                               singleLevel    (1),
                               wholeSubtree   (2)
                                     },
           derefAliases   ENUMERATED {
                               neverDerefAliases     (0),
                                     },
           sizeLimit      INTEGER (0 .. maxInt),
           timeLimit      INTEGER (0 .. maxInt),
           attrsOnly      BOOLEAN,  -- FALSE only
           filter         Filter,
           attributes     SEQUENCE OF AttributeType
                                }

   All aspects of the SearchRequest MUST be supported, except for the
   following:

   - Only the neverDerefAliases value of derefAliases needs to be
     supported

   - Only the FALSE value for attrsOnly needs to be supported

   This subset provides a more general search capability.  It is a
   superset of the SearchRequest subset defined in <a href="#section-5.2.1">Section 5.2.1</a>. The
   elements added to this service are:

   - singleLevel and wholeSubtree scope needs to be supported

   - sizeLimit is included

   - timeLimit is included

   - Enhanced filter capability





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   An application providing a LDAP repository search service MAY
   implement other aspects of the SearchRequest as well.

<span class="h4"><a class="selflink" id="section-6.2.2" href="#section-6.2.2">6.2.2</a>.  Search Response</span>

   The full LDAPv2 SearchResponse is defined in <a href="./rfc1777">RFC 1777</a>.

   An application providing a LDAP repository search service over LDAPv2
   MUST implement the full SearchResponse.

<span class="h3"><a class="selflink" id="section-6.3" href="#section-6.3">6.3</a>.  Unbind</span>

   An application providing a LDAP repository search service MUST
   implement the full UnbindRequest.

<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" id="section-7" href="#section-7">7</a>.  LDAP Repository Modify</span>

   To add, delete and modify PKI information in a repository  requires a
   subset of the following LDAP operations:

     BindRequest (and BindResponse)
     ModifyRequest (and ModifyResponse)
     AddRequest (and AddResponse)
     DelRequest (and DelResponse
     UnbindRequest

   The subset of each operation REQUIRED is given below.

<span class="h3"><a class="selflink" id="section-7.1" href="#section-7.1">7.1</a>.  Bind</span>

   The full LDAP v2 Bind Request is defined in <a href="./rfc1777">RFC 1777</a>.

   An application providing a LDAP repository modify service MUST
   implement the following subset of this operation:

      BindRequest ::=
        [APPLICATION 0] SEQUENCE {
           version      INTEGER (2),
           name         LDAPDN,
           simpleauth [0] OCTET STRING
           }

   A LDAP repository modify service MUST implement authenticated access.

   The BindResponse subsets needed are the same as those described in
   <a href="#section-5.1.2">Section 5.1.2</a>.





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<span class="h3"><a class="selflink" id="section-7.2" href="#section-7.2">7.2</a>.  Modify</span>

<span class="h4"><a class="selflink" id="section-7.2.1" href="#section-7.2.1">7.2.1</a>.  Modify Request</span>

   The full LDAPv2 ModifyRequest is defined in <a href="./rfc1777">RFC 1777</a>.

   An application providing a LDAP repository modify service MUST
   implement the following subset of the ModifyRequest protocol unit.

      ModifyRequest ::=
        [APPLICATION 6] SEQUENCE {
       object         LDAPDN,
       modification   SEQUENCE OF SEQUENCE {
                        operation     ENUMERATED {
                                        add     (0),
                                        delete  (1)
                                      },
                        modification  SEQUENCE {
                                      type   AttributeType,
                                      values SET OF
                                             AttributeValue
                                      }
                      }
        }

   All aspects of the ModifyRequest MUST be supported, except for the
   following:

   - Only the add and delete values of operation need to be supported

<span class="h4"><a class="selflink" id="section-7.2.2" href="#section-7.2.2">7.2.2</a>.  Modify Response</span>

   The full LDAPv2 ModifyResponse is defined in <a href="./rfc1777">RFC 1777</a>.

   An application providing a LDAP repository modify service MUST
   implement the full ModifyResponse.

<span class="h3"><a class="selflink" id="section-7.3" href="#section-7.3">7.3</a>.  Add</span>

<span class="h4"><a class="selflink" id="section-7.3.1" href="#section-7.3.1">7.3.1</a>.  Add Request</span>

   The full LDAPv2 AddRequest is defined in <a href="./rfc1777">RFC 1777</a>.

   An application providing a LDAP repository modify service MUST
   implement the full AddRequest.






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<span class="h4"><a class="selflink" id="section-7.3.2" href="#section-7.3.2">7.3.2</a>.  Add Response</span>

   The full LDAPv2 AddResponse is defined in <a href="./rfc1777">RFC 1777</a>.

   An application providing a LDAP repository modify service MUST
   implement the full AddResponse.

<span class="h3"><a class="selflink" id="section-7.4" href="#section-7.4">7.4</a>.  Delete</span>

<span class="h4"><a class="selflink" id="section-7.4.1" href="#section-7.4.1">7.4.1</a>.  Delete Request</span>

   The full LDAPv2 DelRequest is defined in <a href="./rfc1777">RFC 1777</a>.

   An application providing a LDAP repository modify service MUST
   implement the full DelRequest.

<span class="h4"><a class="selflink" id="section-7.4.2" href="#section-7.4.2">7.4.2</a>.  Delete Response</span>

   The full LDAPv2 DelResponse is defined in <a href="./rfc1777">RFC 1777</a>.

   An application providing a LDAP repository modify service MUST
   implement the full DelResponse.

<span class="h3"><a class="selflink" id="section-7.5" href="#section-7.5">7.5</a>.  Unbind</span>

   An application providing a LDAP repository modify service MUST
   implement the full UnbindRequest.

<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" id="section-8" href="#section-8">8</a>.  Non-standard attribute value encodings</span>

   When conveyed in LDAP requests and results, attributes defined in
   X.500 are to be encoded using string representations defined in <a href="./rfc1778">RFC</a>
   <a href="./rfc1778">1778</a>, The String Representation of Standard Attribute Syntaxes.
   These string encodings were based on the attribute definitions from
   X.500(1988).  Thus, the string representations of the PKI information
   elements are for version 1 certificates and version 1 revocation
   lists.  Since this specification uses version 3 certificates and
   version 2 revocation lists, as defined in X.509(1997), the <a href="./rfc1778">RFC 1778</a>
   string encoding of these attributes is inappropriate.

   For this reason, these attributes MUST be encoded using a syntax
   similar to the syntax "Undefined" from <a href="./rfc1778#section-2.1">section&nbsp;2.1 of RFC 1778</a>:
   values of these attributes are encoded as if they were values of type
   "OCTET STRING", with the string value of the encoding being the DER-
   encoding of the value itself.  For example, when writing a
   userCertificate to the repository, the CA generates a DER-encoding of
   the certificate and uses that encoding as the value of the
   userCertificate attribute in the LDAP Modify request.This encoding



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   style is consistent with the encoding scheme proposed for LDAPv3,
   which is now being defined within the IETF.

   Note that certificates and revocation lists will be transferred using
   this mechanism rather than the string encodings in <a href="./rfc1778">RFC 1778</a> and
   client systems which do not understand this encoding may experience
   problems with these attributes.

<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" id="section-9" href="#section-9">9</a>.  Transport</span>

   An application providing a LDAP repository read service, LDAP
   repository search service, or LDAP repository modify service MUST
   support LDAPv2 transport over TCP, as defined in Section 3.1 of <a href="./rfc1777">RFC</a>
   <a href="./rfc1777">1777</a>.

   An application providing a LDAP repository read service, LDAP
   repository search service, or LDAP repository modify service MAY
   support LDAPv2 transport over other reliable transports as well.

<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" id="section-10" href="#section-10">10</a>.  Security Considerations</span>

   Since the elements of information which are key to the PKI service
   (certificates and CRLs) are both digitally signed pieces of
   information, additional integrity service is NOT REQUIRED.  As
   neither information element need be kept secret and anonymous access
   to such information, for retrieval purposes is generally acceptable,
   privacy service is NOT REQUIRED for information retrieval requests.

   CAs have additional requirements, including modification of PKI
   information.  Simple authentication alone is not sufficient for these
   purposes. It is RECOMMENDED that some stronger means of
   authentication and/or (if simple authentication is used) some means
   of protecting the privacy of the password is used, (e.g.  accept
   modifications only via physically secure networks, use IPsec, use SSH
   or TLS or SSL tunnel). Without such authentication, it is possible
   that a denial-of-service attack could occur where the attacker
   replaces valid certificates with bogus ones.

   For the LDAP repository modify service, profiled in <a href="#section-7">section 7</a>, there
   are some specific security considerations with respect to access
   control. These controls apply to a repository which is under the same
   management control as the CA. Organizations operating directories are
   NOT REQUIRED to provide external CAs access permission to their
   directories.







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   The CA MUST have access control permissions allowing it to:

      For CA entries:
         - add, modify and delete all PKI attributes for its own
           directory entry;
         - add, modify and delete all values of these attributes.

      For CRL distribution point entries (if used):
         - create, modify and delete entries of object class
           cRLDistributionPoint immediately subordinate to its own
           entry;
         - add, modify and delete all attributes, and all values of
           these attributes for these entries.

      For subscriber (end-entity) entries:
         - add, modify and delete the attribute userCertificate and all
           values of that attribute, issued by this CA to/from these
           entries.

   The CA is the ONLY entity with these permissions.

   An application providing LDAP repository read, LDAP repository
   search, or LDAP repository modify service as defined in this
   specification is NOT REQUIRED to implement any additional security
   features other than those described herein, however an implementation
   SHOULD do so.

<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" id="section-11" href="#section-11">11</a>.  References</span>

   [<a id="ref-1">1</a>]  Yeong, Y., Howes, T. and S. Kille, "Lightweight Directory Access
        Protocol", <a href="./rfc1777">RFC 1777</a>, March 1995.

   [<a id="ref-2">2</a>]  Howes, T., Kille, S., Yeong, W. and C. Robbins, "The String
        Representation of Standard Attribute Syntaxes", <a href="./rfc1778">RFC 1778</a>, March
        1995.

   [<a id="ref-3">3</a>]  Bradner, S., "Key Words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement
        Levels", <a href="https://www.rfc-editor.org/bcp/bcp14">BCP 14</a>, <a href="./rfc2119">RFC 2119</a>, March 1997.













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<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" id="section-12" href="#section-12">12</a>.  Authors' Addresses</span>

   Sharon Boeyen
   Entrust Technologies Limited
   750 Heron Road
   Ottawa, Ontario
   Canada K1V 1A7

   EMail: sharon.boeyen@entrust.com


   Tim Howes
   Netscape Communications Corp.
   501 E. Middlefield Rd.
   Mountain View, CA 94043
   USA

   EMail: howes@netscape.com


   Patrick Richard
   Xcert Software Inc.
   Suite 1001, 701 W. Georgia Street
   P.O. Box 10145
   Pacific Centre
   Vancouver, B.C.
   Canada V7Y 1C6

   EMail: patr@xcert.com






















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<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" id="section-13" href="#section-13">13</a>.  Full Copyright Statement</span>

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