ietf-smime
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: CMS-03 Comments

1998-02-25 15:35:47
Russ,

I agree with all of your recommendations.

I also agree with Dave Kemp's enhancement to add SIZE(1..MAX) to
AuthAttributes and UnauthAttributes.

Thanx for listening,
John Pawling


At 09:58 AM 2/25/98 -0500, Russ Housley wrote:
John:

1)  How about the following ASN.1.  It has shorter names.
AuthAttributes ::= SET OF AuthAttribute

AuthAttribute ::= SEQUENCE { 
 attrType OBJECT IDENTIFIER, 
 critical BOOLEAN DEFAULT FALSE, 
 attrValues SET OF AttributeValue }

UnauthAttributes ::= SET OF UnauthAttribute

UnauthAttribute ::= SEQUENCE { 
 attrType OBJECT IDENTIFIER, 
 attrValues SET OF AttributeValue }

2) >Recommend that the following sentence replace the aforementioned text:
"Note that only the value octets of the envelopedData encryptedContentInfo
encryptedContent OCTET STRING are encrypted; the OCTET STRING tag and length
octets are not encrypted."

How about: "The input to the content-encryption process is the "value" of the
content being enveloped.  Only the value octets of the envelopedData
encryptedContentInfo encryptedContent OCTET STRING are encrypted; the OCTET
STRING tag and length octets are not encrypted."

Russ 



<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>