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This article describes the support for the Enrollment over Secure Transport (EST) protocol in Smart ID Certificate Manager via Protocol Gateway

The Enrollment over Secure Transport (EST) is a cryptographic protocol that describes an X.509 certificate management protocol targeting Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) clients that need to acquire key pairs, client certificates and associated Certification Authority (CA) certificates over https. Example of functions are initial certificate enrollment, certificate renewal, and CA rollover. EST is defined in RFC 7030See also Example: EST configuration in Protocol Gateway.

EST endpoints

The EST service is compliant with the EST specification and supports the following endpoints: 

endpointOperation

/cacerts

CA Certificates request and response
/simpleenrollSimple enrollment and re-enrollment of Clients with response
/simplereenrollSimple enrollment and re-enrollment of Clients with response
/fullcmcFull Certificate Management over CMS (CMC) request and response
/csrattrsServer-side key generation request and response with symmetric and asymmetric private key encryption
/serverkeygenCertificate Signing Request (CSR) attributes request and response

For more information on client authentication and preregistration, see Authentication and preregistration for EST

For details on the EST protocol, see https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7030

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EST support in Protocol Gateway

The default configuration for EST and the CoAP proxy is included in est.properties and coap.properties

CoAP Proxy

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