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Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-smime-ecc-00.txt

1999-10-29 11:37:46
François:

>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?

Most of the EC key management work that I have seen uses EC D-H (key agreement). As the S/MIME WG chairman, it is my responsibility to ensure that we document the algorithm suites that have a constituency; not that we document every possible algorithm suite. Where do you see EC key transport being used?

Russ

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