[MS-WCCE] broken links to [KEYGEN] specifications

Vadims Podāns 9,111 MVP

[MS-WCCE] document contains several links to Netscape Keygen specifications that point to external resource. However, external resource no longer contain keygen specs. Example: §3.2.1.4.2.1.4.1.4 New Certificate Request Using KEYGEN Request Format. Document contains a link to Microsoft forwarder (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=166240) and forwarder redirects to a page that doesn't contain any Keygen specs anymore.

I tried to find something more reliable and didn't find much. The closest is Mozilla Developer Network: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/keygen.

Jeff McCashland 476 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2021-04-28T16:15:37.697+00:00

Hello Crypt32,

Thank you for alerting us to this issue. One of our engineers will respond soon.

Best Regards,
Jeff McCashland
Microsoft Open Specifications
Jeff McCashland 476 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2021-04-28T21:39:00.747+00:00

Hello Crypt32,

I will be assisting with this issue. I will look into it and let you know what I find.

Best regards,
Jeff McCashland
Microsoft Open Specifications

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Jeff McCashland 476 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2021-04-29T23:12:57.78+00:00

Hi Crypt32,

I have identified several broken reference links for [KEYEN] and a few other documents in [MS-WCCE]. I will file a request to update the links and follow up.

Best Regards,
Jeff McCashland
Microsoft Open Specifications
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Vadims Podāns 9,111 Reputation points MVP

2021-04-30T07:36:02.773+00:00

Yes, [KEYGEN] is referenced in different sections in [MS-WCCE], I just provided a sample section.

Vadims Podāns 9,111 Reputation points MVP

2021-05-08T10:23:28.66+00:00

Please, let me know the solution you end with.

Jeff McCashland 476 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2021-06-14T18:15:53.86+00:00

We have made the following changes to [MS-WCCE] for the next release of the document:

Replaced outdated [PKCS12] with [RFC7292]

Replaced outdated [PKCS1] with [RFC8017]

Replaced outdated [PKCS3] with [RFC2631]

Updated link for [CertTransp]

Updated link for [KEYGEN] and renamed to [HTMLQ-keygen]. with additional references as needed.

Updated link for [MSFT-ADVCERT] and renamed to [MSDOCS-certreq]

Fixed broken reference to [MSFT-CRL]

I hope that helps!
Jeff McCashland
Microsoft Open Specificatoins

Vadims Podāns 9,111 Reputation points MVP

2021-06-16T09:41:42.47+00:00

Thanks for update! I will follow up updated docs after release.

Jeff McCashland 476 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2021-06-16T16:32:24.373+00:00

Here are the new links:

[CertTransp] https://mskb.pkisolutions.com/kb/4093260

[HTMLQ-keygen] https://www.htmlquick.com/reference/tags/keygen.html

[MSDOCS-certreq] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/certreq_1

[MSFT-CRL] https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/4954.windows-xp-certificate-status-and-revocation-checking.aspx

Jeff McCashland
Microsoft Open Specifications
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