Hi Michael,

This are interesting good points.

IMO, draft-pritikin-coap-bootstrap/draft-vanderstock-core-coap-est do not 
necessarily need to define one transport mechanism. COAPS (over DTLS) is one 
obvious option but running over OSCOAP with EDHOC is another. One of the goals 
of these drafts (would need to be merged) is the binding between COAP messages 
and BRSKI / EST APIs for all the bootstrapping and cert enrollment transactions 
defined in the anima-bootstrapping-keyinfra doc and RFC7030. 
draft-pritikin-coap-bootstrap/draft-vanderstock-core-coap-est address DTLS as 
transport mechanism right now, but could be expanded to define more than one 
transports. If the WG finds that as a better idea, normative language would 
need to be carefully of course and maybe an MTI option would need to be chosen.

I am curious about your workflow in 
https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/6tisch/current/msg05020.html You are 
envisioning for the JCE to initiate the bootstrapping to the pledge, but 
wouldn't that better be defined in the anima-bootstrapping-keyinfra doc?

About 'simple system that can be used with PSKs as authentication', I was 
curious. Did you have TLS-PSK, or TLS-SRP or OSCOAP message auth with 
PSK/RPK/Cert? Anything more detail about these usecases?

A nit in " <--- CoAP POST /cert-----     [PKCS7 Certificate] ". That message 
would require the private key to be included with the cert since the pledge did 
not generate it by himself. EST defines CMS for this message. PKCS12 could 
suffice here as well with the challenge if the passphrase provisioning being 
the problem.

Rgs,
Panos

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Michael Richardson
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Subject: Re: [Anima-bootstrap] [Ace] EST over CoAP in ACE wg


I have read:
    draft-pritikin-coap-bootstrap
and draft-vanderstock-core-coap-est

and over in the 6tisch security design team we have been trying to adapt the 
ANIMA WG draft-ietf-anima-bootstrapping-keyinfra for use in the 6tisch 
environment as a zero-touch enrollment process.
(Yes, I am an author involved in both WGs)

Peter (one of the authors of draft-vanderstock-core-coap-est) and Max (author 
of draft-pritikin-coap-bootstrap) are involved.

Both documents have good content, and we could combine them easily and wind up 
with a relatively straight forward description of how to run EST over COAPS.
But I don't think that this really solves the problems that we have.

However, the movement in
         draft-vucinic-6tisch-minimal-security (as phase 2, and one-touch)
and   draft-richardson-6tisch-dtsecurity-secure-join (as phase 1, zero-touch)
[both of which are being considered for adoption]

is to move away from DTLS and towards OSCOAP and EDHOC.

As such, what we would really like is an EST-like mechanism which runs over 
OSCOAP with EDHOC keying.  Ideally, it would also permit the process to be 
managed/initiated from the new device (the pledge), or from the JCE (Registrar, 
which might also be the AS in ACE terminology).

We want to initiate from the JCE so that we can:
  a) simplify the constrained device.
  b) manage the order and priority of join activities to avoid
     network congestion in constrained (mesh) networks.

On the other hand, some want a really simple system that can be used with PSKs 
as authentication, with the new nodes initiating.

I wrote this email last week to explain some of what I have in mind.
  https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/6tisch/current/msg05020.html

I don't know if the EST work fits into ACE's charter, but given that ACE is 
where OSCOAP and EDHOC seem to be, I'm happy to work on a document here.

--
Michael Richardson <mcr+i...@sandelman.ca>, Sandelman Software Works  -= IPv6 
IoT consulting =-



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