On 14-Jun-19 05:18, Panos Kampanakis (pkampana) wrote:
> The libest server or proxy will generate the CTE header as specified in 
> RFC7030. The libest client will parse it, but it will not reject the response 
> if the header is not there. It expects base64 encoded PKCS#7, not binary 
> though. Note that in 
> _https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ace-coap-est/_ we assume all 
> cert payloads are binary.
>  
> Now, I don’t know how other EST clients would act. There are many out there 
> by now that we can’t safely tell if they would act up.
>  
> The commercial and enterprise CAs I tested with interoped fine with the 
> libest client and they were not all sending the CTE field. They payload was 
> base64 though.
>  
> To address the erratum, I would lean towards a recommendation against using 
> the CTE header based on the referenced standards and state that base64 
> encoding is implied.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#appendix-A from June 2014 makes it all very 
plain. However, there is a small problem of running code.

There's already an erratum: https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid5107

For whatever reason, it is sitting in state "reported" since 2017.

    Brian

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