topic Re:vPro Provisioning Certificate from DigiCert in Intel vPro® Platform

vPro Provisioning Certificate from DigiCert

Zieri__Sascha — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 07:05:23 GMT

Hi,

Last Week we renewed our provisioning cert from DigiCert for another year.

Our Partner for certificate issues informed me that DigiCert as well as other Certificate Authorities stop issuing vPro Provisioning Certificates and that they probably cannot renew our Certificate again next Year.

So the question is how would the Provisioning of vPro wiht an EMA Server work in the future without the possibility to get the needed Certificate?

https://docs.digicert.com/en/whats-new/change-log/older-changes/change-log--2021.html#february-15--2021

Thanks for Reply,

Greetings

Sascha

Re:vPro Provisioning Certificate from DigiCert

vij1 — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 23:40:11 GMT

Hello Zieri,

Greetings!

The certificate used for host-based setup and configuration is the same kind of certificate as is required for remote configuration. It is a server certificate, used only for setup and configuration, with the appropriate OID or OU that traces to a CA that has a root certificate hash stored in the Intel AMT device.

https://software.intel.com/sites/manageability/AMT_Implementation_and_Reference_Guide/default.htm?turl=WordDocuments%2Facquiringanintelvprocertificate.htm

A certificate chain contains a series of public key certificates in pem format, or it could be a series of one or more pem files. Each certificate is delimited by a

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- string at the beginning and a

-----END CERTIFICATE----- at the end.

https://software.intel.com/sites/manageability/AMT_Implementation_and_Reference_Guide/default.htm?turl=WordDocuments%2Fcertificatechainsforhostbasedconfiguration.htm

Provisioning of vPro with an EMA Server, I will provide you an update shortly.

Regards,

Vijay N.

Re:vPro Provisioning Certificate from DigiCert

vij1 — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 22:03:01 GMT

Hello Zieri,

Greetings!

I apologize for any misunderstanding. We confirm that GoDaddy, Entrust, and Certigo are providing the vPro certificates to customers for provisioning.

Best regards,

Vijay N.

Re:vPro Provisioning Certificate from DigiCert

vij1 — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 00:50:16 GMT

Hello Zieri,

Greetings!

I am following up on the case. Is there anything else I can assist you with?

Regards,

Vijay N.

Re:vPro Provisioning Certificate from DigiCert

vij1 — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 23:05:00 GMT

Hello Zieri,

Greetings!

I am following up on the case. Is there anything else I can assist you with?

Regards,

Vijay N.