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NIST SP 1800-16

Securing Web Transactions: TLS Server Certificate Management

Date Published: June 2020

Author(s)

Mehwish Akram (MITRE), William Barker (Strativia), Rob Clatterbuck (Thales Trusted Cyber Technologies), Donna Dodson (NIST), Brandon Everhart (MITRE), Jane Gilbert (Thales Trusted Cyber Technologies), William Haag (NIST), Brian Johnson (MITRE), Alexandros Kapasouris (Symantec), Dung Lam (F5), Brett Pleasant (MITRE), Mary Raguso (MITRE), Murugiah Souppaya (NIST), Susan Symington (MITRE), Paul Turner (Venafi), Clint Wilson (DigiCert)

Abstract

Keywords

authentication; certificate; cryptography; identity; key; key management; PKI; private key; public key; public key infrastructure; server; signature; TLS; Transport Layer Security
Control Families

Access Control; Audit and Accountability; Configuration Management; Program Management; System and Information Integrity

Documentation

Publication:
https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.1800-16
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Supplemental Material:
SP 1800-16 files
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Related NIST Publications:
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Document History:
11/29/18: SP 1800-16 (Draft)
07/17/19: SP 1800-16 (Draft)
06/16/20: SP 1800-16 (Final)