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Re: PKCS #9 Internet Draft??

1997-11-12 05:31:01
At 07:32 PM 11/7/97 -0500, Phillip H. Griffin wrote:
If you're going to create ASN.1 modules, it helps ASN.1:1994
implementors 
to have them defined in the ASN.1, so they can be used to constrain
types.
Regardless of whether you publish in ASN.1:1990 or 1994, someone is sure
to want to implement smime or a derivative, using equivalent ASN.1:1994 
definitions.

Phil


Agreed.  I will add an appendix to the CMS document that pulls all of the
ASN.1 into a single module.  However, I am going to use the 1988 syntax.
There are more tools for the 1988 version, so I am going to stick with it.

Russ

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