Not at all. There may be no impact. My posting is
simply in response to many debates I've seen fly by
on algorithm support. I'm merely suggesting that the
technologists see if this has any impact.
If there is none, then great.
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Hoffman / IMC [mailto:phoffman(_at_)imc(_dot_)org]
Sent: Sunday, January 03, 1999 7:57 PM
To: ietf-pkix(_at_)imc(_dot_)org; ietf-smime(_at_)imc(_dot_)org
Subject: Re: Impact of US Export Regulation changes on WG documents
At 07:46 PM 1/3/99 -0600, Bill Brice wrote:
My purpose in bringing this to the attention of these
lists it that many of the Work Group documents are in
last call or near completion. The appropriate authors
should consider whether the changes made by the BXA
might impact these documents.
Could you be a bit more explicit? What do you mean by "impact"? I hope you
are not suggesting that we break backwards compatibility with S/MIME v2 by
substituting one weak algorithm for another.
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium