RFC 9809: X.509 Certificate Extended Key Usage (EKU) for Configuration, Updates, and Safety-Critical Communication
Recent RFCs 2025-07-11
Summary:
RFC 5280 defines the Extended Key Usage (EKU) extension and specifies
several extended key purpose identifiers (KeyPurposeIds) for use with
that extension in X.509 certificates. This document defines
KeyPurposeIds for general-purpose and trust anchor configuration
files, for software and firmware update packages, and for
safety-critical communication to be included in the EKU extension of
X.509 v3 public key certificates.