Showing posts with label manifests. Show all posts
Showing posts with label manifests. Show all posts

Friday, July 22, 2011

RPKI Manifests

Manifests are currently documented by this sidr draft. Manifest are signed objects that have a list of all the objects in a repository (except the manifest itself) and their corresponding hash. A valid manifest helps to ascertain that the objects in a publication point are fresh (latest issued) and complete i.e. none are missing.
Similar to ROAs, manifests embed an End Entity (EE) which enforces the manifest validity period. A sample manifest is shown below.

Sample Manifest