Certificate Management over CMS

The Certificate Management over CMS (CMC) is an Internet Standard published by the IETF, defining transport mechanisms for the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS). It is defined in RFC 5272, its transport mechanisms in RFC 5273. It is one of two protocols utilizing the Certificate Request Message Format (CRMF), described in RFC 4211, with the other protocol being the Certificate Management Protocol (CMP).

CMC (Certificate Management over CMS)
family: unknown
field of application : certificate management
newest version: RFC 5272
CMC in the TCP/IP model:
application CMC CMC
HTTP HTTPS SMTP ...
transport TCP
Internet IP (IPv4, IPv6)
link Ethernet Token
Bus
Token
Ring
FDDI ...
proposed standard:

RFC 5272

obsolete standard:

RFC 2797

The Enrollment over Secure Transport (EST) protocol, described in RFC 7030, is a profile of CMC for use in provisioning certificates to end entities. As such, EST can play a similar role to SCEP.

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