RFC 5652 | Uwe Gradenegger

Electronic data exchange with the German Pension Insurance

Recently, together with B-I-T GmbH Informationen und Prozesse from Hanover, I worked on implementing the electronic data exchange with the statutory health insurance funds and the pension insurance from within an application.

Here, a combination of authenticated data transmission of both signed and encrypted messages is used. PKI technologies are used in all these cases.

The message format used is documented here .

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Basics: Enroll on Behalf of (EOBO)

The following is a description of the Enroll on Behalf Of function and how it differs from other methods of requesting certificates.

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Basics: Network Device Enrollment Service (NDES)

The Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) was developed by Verisign for Cisco in the early 2000s to provide a simplified method for requesting certificates. Previously, network devices required manually generating a certificate request on each device, submitting it to a certification authority, and then manually installing the issued certificate on the corresponding device again.

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