I was very please to see this new Internet Draft for the support of
Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) under S/MIME Version 3.
What do others think about also supporting "key transport" using ECC in the
next version of this Internet Draft in addition to supporting ECC based
digital signatures and key agreements?
François Rousseau
At 08:48 AM 27/10/99 -0400, you wrote:
A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
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This draft is a work item of the S/MIME Mail Security Working Group of the
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Title : Elliptic Curve S/MIME
Author(s) : P. Lambert
Filename : draft-ietf-smime-ecc-00.txt
Pages :
Date : 26-Oct-99
This document is the first draft of a profile for the incorporation
of Elliptic Curve (EC) public key algorithms in the Cryptographic
Message Syntax (CMS). The EC algorithms support the creation of
digital signatures and the distribution of keys to encrypt or authen-
ticate message content. The definition of the algorithm processing
is based on the ANSI X9.63 draft, developed by the ANSI X9F1
working group.
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