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Re: Password-based Encryption for S/MIME...

1999-11-18 14:55:45
        Thank you, Peter.

        My apologies to the list for my apparently out of context note.
<blush> Let this serve as a caution to anyone else who might be tempted to
answer e-mail while flying, when RFCs and suchlike are unavailable. 

                        _Vin

At 09:45 AM 11/19/99, Peter Gutmann wrote:

The title of the document is somewhat misleading, because it's ietf-smime the
documents are typically called "X for S/MIME" but it's actually "Password-based
Encryption for CMS", which is what the text refers to it as.  The expected use
is for encrypting things like disk files, private keys, data blobs, etc etc.  
In addition there are users who are using things like non-public-key-capable 
smart cards to handle KEK's (typically 128 or 192-bit values for IDEA or 3DES) 
which are hardly in the same class as "simple static reusable passwords".


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