About SCEP

Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol.  A Cisco protocol that, used with LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, streamlines the process of acquiring a certificate from a CA Certificate Authority. SCEP Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol allows network devices to be issued certificates automatically in a scalable manner.

The protocol supports:

  • CA and RA Registration Authority public key distribution

  • Certificate enrollment

  • Certificate revocation

  • Certificate query

  • CRL Certificate Revocation List query

 

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 does not implement SCEP the same way as earlier Windows servers. Refer to the documentation for the Windows Server 2008 for information on SCEP implementation.