RE: Tolerance on Message Digest Attribute

All,

I must say I for one prefer Chris Bonatti's original proposal, purely from the 
perspective of the current 
protocol.  Without it, a small slip in implementation seems to open up some 
very undesirable possibilities, 
IMHO.  The proposal closes that door.

However, I can understand the backward compatibility arguments, and I'm 
prepared to go with the flow
on this.

Tim Dean 
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From:  David P. Kemp [SMTP:dpkemp(_at_)missi(_dot_)ncsc(_dot_)mil]
Sent:  Wednesday, March 04, 1998 5:46 PM
To:  ietf-smime(_at_)imc(_dot_)org
Subject:  Re: Tolerance on Message Digest Attribute


> All,
>
> I agree with Eric that the proposals to omit the message digest attribute
> from the transmitted signedData object do not enhance security and do create
> a needless incompatibility between S/MIME v3 and v2 implementations.
>
> - John Pawling

I'm willing to accept either outcome; I just want to achieve closure,
and give potential non-S/MIME users of CMS (in particular Tim Dean and
the European community) one last chance to weigh in on the issue.