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RFC 9763: Related Certificates for Use in Multiple Authentications within a Protocol

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This document defines a new Certificate Signing Request (CSR) attribute, relatedCertRequest, and a new X.509 certificate extension, RelatedCertificate. The use of the relatedCertRequest attribute in a CSR and the inclusion of the RelatedCertificate extension in the resulting certificate together provide additional assurance that two certificates each belong to the same end entity. This mechanism is particularly useful in the context of non-composite hybrid authentication, which enables users to employ the same certificates in hybrid authentication as in authentication done with only traditional or post-quantum algorithms.

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Document ID
RFC9763
Published
June 2025
Authors
A. Becker; R. Guthrie; M. Jenkins
Status
PROPOSED STANDARD
Stream
IETF
Area
sec
Pages
13
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