On 06/08/2011 04:22 PM, Mike Helm wrote:
No we haven't but thanks for that tip - will definitely look into
this.
My_guess_ at this point is that the platform can't generate the keys,
it needs to get them from somewhere else. Having never used SCEP I don't
know if the ipad platform can use a bare key pair to craft a signed SCEP
request or not. Otherwise, I read the page as discussing various methods the ipad
can use to download a certificate from a smarter one - like your Mac laptop.
However, the page doesn't seem to distinguish the private key handling from
cert handling, so....
Hand-me-down certificates fit our working scenarios today but we'll soon have
customers that
want to conduct these transactions directly on their mobile platform. I think
that'll
mean we have to have a key pair generator or some other trusted service.
Thanks, ==mwh
Here is an interesting quote from above pdf file:
/... iPad generates a certificate enrollment request using the
SCEP protocol. This SCEP enrollment request talks directly to the
enterprise certificate
authority and enables iPad to receive the identity certificate from
the certificate authority
in response. ...
/
which means that follows SCEP (included in Dogtag) and general PKI rules.
Thank you,
Andrew