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I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-smime-sigattr-00.txt

1998-05-12 07:21:52
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This draft is a work item of the S/MIME Mail Security Working Group of the IETF.

        Title           : Signing Certificate Attribute Specification
        Author(s)       : J. Schaad
        Filename        : draft-ietf-smime-sigattr-00.txt
        Pages           : 4
        Date            : 11-May-98
        
 A set of attacks on SignedData objects have been
 identified relating to the fact that the certificate to be
 used when verifying the signature in a SignerInfo is not
 cryptographically bound into the signature. This leads to
 a set of attacks where the certificate used to verify the
 signature is altered leading to possible incorrect
 results. This document describes these attacks and
 provides ways to deal with some of the attacks.
 
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