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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories PKI
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 6, 2021

PKI Services -RFC 8555 - Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME)

PKI services actually implements the SCEP and EST protocol to Enroll Certificates of CISCO Routers.

The Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) protocol is a communications protocol for automating interactions between certificate authorities and their users' web servers, allowing the automated deployment of public key infrastructure at very low cost. It was designed by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) for their Let's Encrypt service.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    Mar 4, 2024

    Seems to be a similar idea to ZOS-I-3502 ... It would really be helpful to have it integrated into zSecure oder z/OSMF in order to automatically/manually request and receive certificates issued by a non-mainframe PKI using a secure communication channel between non-mainframe PKI and the mainframe. Clients have to do a lot of insecure manual work of uploading and copying to install certificates within RACF. A higher priority would be highly appreciated from a customers perspective, as certificate management is a critical business process and desperately needed to secure mainframe communication.