Re: Way Forward

At 2:18 PM -0700 8/1/00, Eric Rescorla wrote:
>  > OAEP have been available for years.  PKCS#1 v2.0 includes it.  I do not
> >  think that it is immature.
> That's not the issue that I am concerned with. Rather, I'm concerned
> with introducing gratuitous incompatibilities.
I'm with Eric on this one. We can add a note about how to avoid the 
problem *and* keep compatibility with the established S/MIME base. 
The proposal was prompted by S/MIME, not CMS.
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium