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Re: DH mechanism?

1998-03-31 08:44:48
This part of the specification is still being written. 

Russ


At 08:01 PM 3/30/98 +0000, Dr Stephen Henson wrote:
Is the way in which DH is used for v3 S/MIME enveloped modes documented
anywhere? I've read PKCS#3 and the S/MIME specs but this leaves some
questions unanswered.

Do the sender and recipient use two fixed keys (presumably as part of
certificates) with a common set of parameters or does the sender
generate a random one-time session key pair for the recipients
parameters?

Steve.
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