On Monday, June 02, 1997 10:29 AM, Charles Breed
[SMTP:cbreed(_at_)pgp(_dot_)com]
wrote:
Keeping future S/MIME digest algorithms with the "pkcs7-" prefix is fine,
but
will PKCS #7 undergo any changes to allow for additional...
1. Public-Key algorithms, (elliptic curve, DSA-ElGamal,...) or will S/MIME
be
RSA (asymmetric) forever?
Both of these can definitely be defined in an alternative
interoperability profile (as an informational RFC, perhaps). I'm not
sure they fit into the base interoperability profile, since the goal of
that is to provide the minimum required for interoperability.
Blake