All,
IMHO Russ Housley has done a most excellent job of drafting the
"Cryptographic Message Syntax" spec. I have the following minor comments:
1) Abstract: Please change "deriveded" to "derived".
2) Sec 3: Please change "in 3 The methods below" to "The methods below".
3) Sec 5: Please change: "The signer's public key is either contained in a
certificate included in the signer information, or is referenced by an
issuer distinguished name and an issuer-specific serial number that uniquely
identify the certificate containing the public key." to "The signer's public
key is referenced by an issuer distinguished name and an issuer-specific
serial number that uniquely identify the certificate containing the public
key. The signer's certificate may be included in the SignedData
certificates field."
4) Sec 5, last sentence: Please change "signiture" to "signature".
5) sec 5.1, version description: Please change "version shall 1" to "version
shall be 1"
6) sec 5.1, certificates description: Please change "version shall 1" to
"version shall be 1"
7) sec 5.4: Please change two occurrences of "algorithm deployed" to
"algorithm employed".
8) sec 6.1: Please add the following text to the description of the fields
of type EnvelopedData: "originatorInfo includes information regarding the
originator. It is present in EnvelopedData only if required by the key
management algorithm (e.g. Diffie-Hellman)."
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John Pawling
jsp(_at_)jgvandyke(_dot_)com
J.G. Van Dyke & Associates, Inc.
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At 06:01 PM 11/1/97 -0800, Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:
The Internet Draft for the message format to be used in S/MIME 3 is now
available; please see <http://www.imc.org/draft-housley-smime-cms>. This is
the replacement for PKCS #7 1.5, and is only slightly different. Strap on
your ASN.1 goggles and enjoy!
Two other parts of S/MIME 3 (the message spec and the optional security
enhancements) will be appearing shortly. The certs spec will appear in a
few weeks, once we finish with the v2 certs definition.
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium