EST RFC 7030 hardening master bundle Phase 12 — comprehensive operator-
facing documentation for the Phases 1-11 backend work that shipped on
2026-04-29.
NEW docs/est.md (19 sections, ~810 lines): Concepts (host vs user
enrollment, profile-driven policy, multi-profile dispatch); 5-minute
single-profile Quick start with curl + openssl recipes; Multi-profile
dispatch (CERTCTL_EST_PROFILES=corp,iot,wifi setup with PathID rules
enforced at boot); Authentication modes (mTLS / Basic / both / empty
with cross-check semantics); RFC 9266 channel binding (failure-mode
HTTP mapping table — ErrChannelBindingMissing/Mismatch/NotTLS13 →
400/409/426); WiFi/802.1X recipe with end-to-end FreeRADIUS integration
(EAP-TLS supplicant config, mods-available/eap tls-common block, CRL
distribution endpoint cross-ref, troubleshooting playbook); IoT bootstrap
recipe (factory provisioning, first boot, steady-state renewal,
compromise/decommission via bulk-revoke, recommended cert lifetimes
per master prompt §7.7); serverkeygen for resource-constrained devices
(CMS EnvelopedData wrap, RSA-only at this revision, zeroize discipline,
Phase-1 cross-check refusing _SERVERKEYGEN_ENABLED=true with empty
_PROFILE_ID); HSM-backed CA signing for EST cross-ref (signer interface
seam); Operator GUI tabbed surface tour (/est: Profiles / Recent
Activity / Trust Bundle); CLI + 6 MCP tools; Renewal device-driven
model (RFC 7030 §4.2.2 mandate, renewal-trigger ratios for laptops/IoT,
operator-push via webhook); Troubleshooting matrix (one row per typed
audit-action constant in internal/service/est_audit_actions.go);
TLS 1.2 reverse-proxy runbook cross-ref (channel-binding caveat
explained); Threat model (load-bearing properties: trust-anchor reload
fail-safety, per-profile counter isolation, mTLS cross-profile bleed
defense, source-IP limiter process-locality, server-keygen heap
residency, HTTP Basic in-process-only, legacy-anonymous-default
back-compat carve-out); V3-Pro deferrals; Appendix A (libest sidecar
reproducer + 5 integration test names); Appendix B (Cisco IOS 15.x +
16.x + Apple MDM + OpenWRT + libest <v3.0 wire-format quirks tested
in internal/api/handler/cisco_ios_quirks_test.go).
UPDATED docs/architecture.md: new "EST Server (RFC 7030) — Production
Deployment" section under the existing baseline EST section. Mermaid
diagram of multi-profile dispatch + mTLS sibling route + per-profile
gate ordering + audit + GUI + SIGHUP-equivalent reload. Existing
authentication paragraph updated with forward-ref to the hardening
section. Audit paragraph updated to enumerate the 13 typed est_*
action codes operators grep on. Trust-anchor reload semantics +
libest interop tested in CI both called out.
UPDATED README.md::Enrollment Protocols: replaced the one-line EST
row with the full production-grade surface description matching the
SCEP analog. Cross-references docs/est.md.
UPDATED docs/connectors.md::EST/SCEP Integration: extended the
EST-or-SCEP shared paragraph to point at the per-profile env-var
form for both protocols + linked the new architecture.md section.
NEW "Multi-profile EST dispatch + production hardening" subsection
mirrors the SCEP equivalent: 9-row env-var table, cross-ref to
docs/est.md.
G-3 docs-drift CI guard reproduced locally clean — every CERTCTL_EST_*
mention in docs maps back to internal/config/config.go, and every
defined env var is documented. The `<NAME>` placeholder convention
matches the SCEP idiom so the docs grep doesn't extract per-deploy
profile names as phantom env vars. No new env vars introduced —
this is a pure docs commit.
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