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I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-smime-compression-01.txt

2000-08-30 03:49:24
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This draft is a work item of the S/MIME Mail Security Working Group of the IETF.

        Title           : Compressed Data Content Type for S/MIME
        Author(s)       : P. Gutmann
        Filename        : draft-ietf-smime-compression-01.txt
        Pages           : 3
        Date            : 29-Aug-00
        
The Cryptographic Message Syntax data format doesn't currently contain
any provisions for compressing data before processing it.  Compressing
data before transmission provides a number of advantages including the
elimination of data redundancy which could help an attacker, speeding
up processing by reducing the amount of data to be processed by later
steps such as signing or encryption, and reducing overall message size.
Although there have been proposals for adding compression at other
levels (for example at the MIME or SSL level) these don't address the
problem of compression of CMS content unless the compression is
supplied by an external means (for example by intermixing MIME and
CMS).  This document defines a format for using compressed data as a
CMS content type.

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