The TLS Proxy CA service provides provides a tlsproxy-ca-subord certificate profile for root Certificate Authorities.

Each external subordinate CA issued by a PKIaaS root CA only consumes one PKIaaS Certificate license. Entrust does not charge for certificates issued by external subordinate CAs because those certificates are considered external and not using the PKIaaS infrastructure. 

TLS Proxy CA use cases

The tlsproxy-ca-subord profile supports the following use cases.

  • ECS Enterprise UI
  • CA Gateway API

TLS Proxy CA request extensions

The tlsproxy-ca-subord profile supports the following non-critical extensions in request.

Extension name

Extension OID

CertificatePolicies

2.5.29.32

TLS Proxy CA certificate fields

The tlsproxy-ca-subord profile sets the following certificate fields.

Field

Value

Issuer

Customer's subordinate issuing CA.

Subject

No constraint

Validity period

Defaults to 1 year if not specified. 

TLS Proxy CA certificate extensions

The tlsproxy-ca-subord profile sets the following certificate extensions.

Extension

Critical

Value

AIA

No

Supplied if the customer enables OCSP when creating the CA

Authority Key Identifier

No

Matches subjectKeyIdentifier of the signing certificate

Basic Constraints

Yes

cA=True, pathLenConstraint=0

CRL Distribution Points

No

Always present

Extended Key Usage

No

TLS server authentication (1.3.6.1.5.5.7.3.1), TLS client authentication (1.3.6.1.5.5.7.3.2)

Key Usage

Yes

Certificate Signing, CRL Signing, Digital Signature

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

TLS Proxy CA algorithm constraints

The tlsproxy-ca-subord profile supports the following key and signature algorithms.

Key algorithm

Signature algorithm

ECDSA P-256

ecdsa-with-SHA256

ECDSA P-384

ecdsa-with-SHA384

ECDSA P-521

ecdsa-with-SHA512

RSA 2048

sha256WithRSAEncryption

RSA 3072

sha256WithRSAEncryption

RSA 4096

sha512WithRSAEncryption

The NIST will deprecate some algorithms after Dec 31, 2030. See https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2024/NIST.IR.8547.ipd.pdf

TLS Proxy CA distinguished names

Entrust 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