Certificate Management Protocol

The Certificate Management Protocol (CMP) is an Internet protocol used for obtaining X.509 digital certificates in a public key infrastructure (PKI). It is described in and is one of two protocols so far to use the Certificate Request Message Format (CRMF), described in , with the other protocol being Certificate Management over CMS (CMC), described in . An obsolete version of CMP is described in , the respective CRMF version in . CMP messages are encoded in ASN.1, using the DER method and usually transported over HTTP.

Certificate Management Protocol

The Certificate Management Protocol (CMP) is an Internet protocol used for obtaining X.509 digital certificates in a public key infrastructure (PKI). It is described in and is one of two protocols so far to use the Certificate Request Message Format (CRMF), described in , with the other protocol being Certificate Management over CMS (CMC), described in . An obsolete version of CMP is described in , the respective CRMF version in . CMP messages are encoded in ASN.1, using the DER method and usually transported over HTTP.