Internet DRAFT - draft-ito-documentsigning-eku
draft-ito-documentsigning-eku
Individual T. Ito
Internet-Draft SECOM CO., LTD.
Intended status: Informational T. Okubo
Expires: 5 May 2022 DigiCert, Inc.
S. Turner
sn3rd
7 November 2021
General Purpose Extended Key Usage (EKU) for Document Signing X.509
Certificates
draft-ito-documentsigning-eku-02
Abstract
[RFC5280] specifies several extended key usages for X.509
certificates. This document defines a general purpose document
signing extended key usage for X.509 public key certificates which
restricts the usage of the certificates for document signing.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Conventions and Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Extended Key usage for DocumentSigning . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3.1. Extended Key Usage Values for Document Signing . . . . . 3
4. Using the Document Signing EKU in a Certificate . . . . . . . 4
5. Implications for a Certification Authority . . . . . . . . . 5
6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
7. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
8. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Appendix A. ASN.1 Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1. Introduction
[RFC5280] specifies several extended key usages for X.509
certificates. In addition, several extended key usage had been
added[RFC7299] as public OID under the IANA repository. While usage
of any extended key usage is bad practice for publicly trusted
certificates, there are no public and general extended key usage
explicitly assigned for Document Signing certificates. The current
practice is to use id-kp-emailProtection, id-kp-codeSigning or vendor
defined Object ID for general document signing purposes.
In circumstances where code signing and S/MIME certificates are also
widely used for document signing, the technical or policy changes
that are made to code signing and S/MIME certificates may cause
unexpected behaviors or have an adverse impact such as decreased
cryptographic agility on the document signing ecosystem and vice
versa.
There is no issue if the vendor defined OIDs are used in a PKI (or a
trust program) governed by the vendor. However, if the OID is used
outside of the vendor governance, the usage can easily become out of
control (e.g. - When the end user encounters vendor defined OIDs,
they might want to ask that vendor about use of the certificate,
however, the vendor may not know about the particular use. - If the
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issuance of the cert is not under the control of the OID owner, there
is no way for the OID owner to know what the impact will be if any
change is made to the OID in question, and it would restrict vendor's
choice of OID management. etc.).
Therefore, it is not favorable to use a vendor defined EKU for
signing a document that is not governed by the vendor.
This document defines a general Document Signing extended key usage.
2. Conventions and Definitions
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. Extended Key usage for DocumentSigning
This specification defines the KeyPurposeId id-kp-documentSigning.
Inclusion of this KeyPurposeId in a certificate indicates that the
use of any Subject names in the certificate is restricted to use by a
document signing.
Term of "Document Sign" in this document is digitally sign contents
that are consumed by humans. To be more precise, contents are
intended to be shown to human with printable or displayable form by
means of services or software, rather than processed by machines.
3.1. Extended Key Usage Values for Document Signing
[RFC5280] specifies the EKU X.509 certificate extension for use in
the Internet. The extension indicates one or more purposes for which
the certified public key is valid. The EKU extension can be used in
conjunction with the key usage extension, which indicates how the
public key in the certificate is used, in a more basic cryptographic
way.
The EKU extension syntax is repeated here for convenience:
ExtKeyUsageSyntax ::= SEQUENCE SIZE (1..MAX) OF KeyPurposeId
KeyPurposeId ::= OBJECT IDENTIFIER
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This specification defines the KeyPurposeId id-kp-documentSigning.
Inclusion of this KeyPurposeId in a certificate indicates that the
use of any Subject names in the certificate is restricted to use by a
document signing service or a software (along with any usages allowed
by other EKU values).
id-kp OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::=
{ iso(1) identified-organization(3) dod(6) internet(1)
security(5) mechanisms(5) pkix(7) 3 }
id-kp-documentSigning OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { id-kp XX }
4. Using the Document Signing EKU in a Certificate
[RFC8358] specifies the conventions for digital signatures on
Internet-Drafts. This is one of the intended use cases for the
general document signing EKU described in this document. [RFC8358]
uses CMS to digitally sign a wide array of files such as ASCII, PDF,
EPUB, HTML etc. Currently, there are no specification regarding EKU
for certificates signing those files except those which are defined
by the software vendor.
The signed contents of Internet-Drafts are primarily intended to be
consumed by human. To be more precise, contents are intended to be
shown to human in a printable or displayable form by means of
services or software, rather than processed by machines. To validate
the digital signature which is signed to contents intended to be
consumed by human, implementations MAY perform the steps below as a
certificate validation:
The implementation MAY examine the Extended Key Usage value(s):
1. If there are no restrictions set for the relying party and the
relying party software, the certificate is acceptable.
2. If there are restrictions set for the replying party and relying
party software, proceed as following.
Each Restriction on the EKUs can be "Excluded EKU" or "Permitted EKU"
and handled.
The procedure is intended to permit or prohibit presence of a certain
EKU or complete absence of EKUs. It is outside the scope of this
document, but the relying party can permit or prohibit conbinations
of EKU. A consideration on prohibiting combination of EKUs is
described in the security consideration section of this document.
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2.1. Excluded EKUs procedure "Excluded EKU" is an EKU which the
relying party or the relying party software prohibits. Examples of
"Excluded EKU" are, presence of anyEKU or complete absence of EKU
extension on a certificate. If an EKU of the certificate meets the
conditions set by the "Excluded EKU" restriction, the relying party
or the relying party software rejects the certificate.
2.2. Permitted EKU procedure "Permitted EKU" is an EKU which the
relying party or the relying party software accepts. Examples of
"Permitted EKU" are, presence of this general document signing EKU
and/or protocol specific document signing-type EKUs. If an EKU of
the certificate meets the condition set by a "Permitted EKU"
restriction, the certificate is acceptable. Otherwise, relying party
or the relying party software rejects the certificate.
When a single software has capability to process various data
formats, the software may choose to make the excluded and permitted
decisions separately in accordance with the format it is handling
(e.g. text, pdf, etc).
5. Implications for a Certification Authority
The procedures and practices employed by a certification authority
MUST ensure that the correct values for the EKU extension are
inserted in each certificate that is issued. Unless certificates are
governed by a vendor specific PKI (or trust program), certificates
that indicate usage for document signing MAY include the id-kp-
documentSigning EKU extension. This does not encompass the mandatory
usage of the id-kp-documentSigning EKU in conjunction with the vendor
specific EKU. However, this does not restrict the CA from including
multiple EKUs related to document signing.
6. Security Considerations
The usage of id-kp-documentSigning EKU intends to prevent id-kp-
emailProtection from being used for none-email purposes and id-kp-
codeSigning used to sign objects other than binary codes. This EKU
does not introduce new security risks but instead reduces existing
security risks by providing means to separate other EKUs used for
communication protocols namely, TLS or S/MIME etc. in order to
minimize the risk of cross protocol attacks.
To reduce the risk of specific cross protocol attacks, the relying
party or relying party software may additionaly prohibit use of
specific combination of EKUs.
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While a specific protocol or signing scheme may choose to come up
with their own EKU, some may not have significant motive or resource
to set up and manage thier own EKU. This general document signing
EKU may be used as a stop gap for those that intend to set up their
own EKU or those who do not intend to set up an EKU but still would
like to distinguish from other usage.
Introduction of this id-kp-documentSigning EKU value does not
introduce any new security or privacy concerns.
7. IANA Considerations
This document requests that IANA make two assignments. One for the
id-kp-documentSigning object identifier (OID), as defined in
Section 3.1, for the EKU from the "SMI Security for PKIX Extended Key
Purpose" (1.3.6.1.5.5.7.3) registry. Another for the id-mod-docsign-
eku, as defined in Appendix A, for the ASN.1 module [X.680] from the
in the "SMI Security for PKIX Module Identifier" (1.3.6.1.5.5.7.0)
registry. No further action is necessary by IANA.
8. Normative References
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.
[RFC5280] Cooper, D., Santesson, S., Farrell, S., Boeyen, S.,
Housley, R., and W. Polk, "Internet X.509 Public Key
Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List
(CRL) Profile", RFC 5280, DOI 10.17487/RFC5280, May 2008,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5280>.
[RFC7299] Housley, R., "Object Identifier Registry for the PKIX
Working Group", RFC 7299, DOI 10.17487/RFC7299, July 2014,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7299>.
[RFC8174] Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC
2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174,
May 2017, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8174>.
[RFC8358] Housley, R., "Update to Digital Signatures on Internet-
Draft Documents", RFC 8358, DOI 10.17487/RFC8358, March
2018, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8358>.
[X.680] ITU-T, "Information technology - Abstract Syntax Notation
One (ASN.1): Specification of basic notation", ISO/
IEC 8824-1:2015, November 2015.
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Acknowledgments
We would like to thank Russ Housley for verifying the ASN.1 module.
Appendix A. ASN.1 Module
The following ASN.1 module provides the complete definition of the
Document Signing EKU.
DocSignEKU { iso(1) identified-organization(3) dod(6) internet(1)
security(5) mechanisms(5) pkix(7) id-mod(0) id-mod-docsign-eku(TBD1) }
DEFINITIONS EXPLICIT TAGS ::=
BEGIN
-- EXPORTS ALL --
-- IMPORTS NOTHING --
-- OID Arc --
id-kp OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {
iso(1) identified-organization(3) dod(6) internet(1)
security(5) mechanisms(5) pkix(7) kp(3) }
-- Document Signing Extended Key Usage --
id-kp-documentSigning OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { id-kp TBD2 }
END
Authors' Addresses
Tadahiko Ito
SECOM CO., LTD.
Email: tadahiko.ito.public@gmail.com
Tomofumi Okubo
DigiCert, Inc.
Email: tomofumi.okubo+ietf@gmail.com
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Sean Turner
sn3rd
Email: sean@sn3rd.com
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