On Jul 02, 2014, at 10:00, Stephen Kent <[email protected]> wrote:

> Rob,
> 
>> At Mon, 30 Jun 2014 11:27:03 -0400, Stephen Kent wrote:
>>> I did suggest we might use other cert request mechanisms. EST is the
>>> obvious, current, standards-based option for this, if folks want to
>>> consider alternatives to PKCS#10. Since it was authored by a Cisco
>>> guy, there is some chance it might become available in their
>>> routers. I would suggest this path only for router certs, not for
>>> the RPKI certs. That might make it unpalatable, as a CA operated by
>>> an ISP would have to deal with two cert request formats: PKCS#1- for
>>> child CA certs (if the ISP is not a stub in the RPKI tree) and EST
>>> for router certs.
>> Is there any real benefit to EST, given that we already have to
>> support PKCS #10 and given that PKCS #10 implementations are almost
>> certainly easier to find than EST implementations?
> As I noted, I am aware of only a Cisco implementation, but we could check with
> Max Pritikin to see if he is aware of others.
>> Absent some serious advantage that I'm not seeing, this doesn't seem
>> particularly attractive.
>> 
>>> I'm just pointing out options.
>> Understood.
> 

Dan’s got an implementation on github:

https://github.com/danharkins/est

spt

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