Entrust PKI as a Service

smime

Entrust PKIaaS provides the following S/MIME Secure Email certificate profiles.

  • smime-digital-signature-key-encipherment
  • smime-key-encipherment
  • smime-non-repudiation

These profiles support the following features.

Use cases

All S/MIME Secure Email profiles support the CA Gateway API use cases.

Key usages

See below the Key Usage and Extended Key Usage (EKU) extension values each S/MIME profile supports.

Profile Key Usage Extended Key Usage
smime-digital-signature-key-encipherment Digital Signature, Key Encipherment TLS client authentication (with OID 1.3.6.1.5.5.7.3.2), Email Protection (with OID 1.3.6.1.5.5.7.3.4)
smime-key-encipherment Key Encipherment Email Protection (with OID 1.3.6.1.5.5.7.3.4)
smime-non-repudiation Digital Signature, Non-Repudiation Email Protection (with OID 1.3.6.1.5.5.7.3.4)

Certificate fields

All S/MIME Secure Email profiles set the following certificate fields.

Field Value
Issuer Customer’s subordinate issuing CA.
Subject No constraint
Validity period Less than or equal to the expiry of the issuing CA. Defaults to 1 year if not specified in the request.

Certificate extensions

All S/MIME Secure Email profiles set the following certificate extensions.

Extension Critical Value
AIA No Supplied if the customer enables OCSP when creating the CA
Authority Key Identifier No Matches the subjectKeyIdentifier of the signing certificate
Basic Constraints Yes cA=False
CRL Distribution Points No Always present
Subject Alternative Name No No constraints
Subject Key Identifier No «The leftmost 160-bits of the SHA-256 hash of the value of the BIT STRING subjectPublicKey» as described in RFC 7093 section 2

Distinguished names

Entrust PKIaaS has no restriction on Distinguished Names (DNs) per certificate profile. All certificate profiles support the following identifiers.

Alias OID
CN, CommonName 2.5.4.3
SN, SurName 2.5.4.4
SERIALNUMBER, DeviceSerialNumber 2.5.4.5
C, Country 2.5.4.6
L, Locality 2.5.4.7
ST, S, State 2.5.4.8
STREET, StreetAddress 2.5.4.9
O, Org, Organization 2.5.4.10
OU, OrganizationalUnit, OrganizationUnit, OrgUnit 2.5.4.11
T, Title 2.5.4.12
BUSINESSCATEGORY 2.5.4.15
POSTALCODE 2.5.4.17
givenName, G 2.5.4.42
I, Initials 2.5.4.43
ORGANIZATIONIDENTIFIER 2.5.4.97
UID 0.9.2342.19200300.100.1.1
DC, DomainComponent 0.9.2342.19200300.100.1.25
Email, E 1.2.840.113549.1.9.1
unstructuredName 1.2.840.113549.1.9.2
unstructuredAddress 1.2.840.113549.1.9.8
JurisdictionOfIncorporationLocalityName 1.3.6.1.4.1.311.60.2.1.1
JurisdictionOfIncorporationStateOrProvinceName 1.3.6.1.4.1.311.60.2.1.2
JurisdictionOfIncorporationCountryName 1.3.6.1.4.1.311.60.2.1.3
TrademarkOfficeName 1.3.6.1.4.1.53087.1.2
TrademarkCountryOrRegionName 1.3.6.1.4.1.53087.1.3
TrademarkRegistration 1.3.6.1.4.1.53087.1.4
LegalEntityIdentifier 1.3.6.1.4.1.53087.1.5
WordMark 1.3.6.1.4.1.53087.1.6
MarkType 1.3.6.1.4.1.53087.1.13
StatuteCountryName 1.3.6.1.4.1.53087.3.2
StatuteStateOrProvinceName 1.3.6.1.4.1.53087.3.3
StatuteLocalityName 1.3.6.1.4.1.53087.3.4
StatuteCitation 1.3.6.1.4.1.53087.3.5
StatuteURL 1.3.6.1.4.1.53087.3.6