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This draft is a work item of the S/MIME Mail Security Working Group of the IETF.
Title : S/MIME Symmetric Key Distribution
Author(s) : S. Turner
Filename : draft-ietf-smime-symkeydist-00.txt
Pages : 19
Date : 22-Dec-99
This document describes a mechanism to manage (i.e., setup, distribute,
and rekey) keys used with symmetric cryptographic algorithms. The
mechanisms use the CMSCryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) protocol [CMS]
to encrypt the key for each member of the group. Any member of the group
can then later use this key to decrypt other CMS encrypted objects with
the symmetric or 'group' key.
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