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Re: Password, compresion and symmetric keys -- are they CMS orS/ MIME ?

2001-07-23 07:00:47

Blake,

I put S/MIME in the title only because it was produced in the S/MIME WG.
S/MIME is referred to in the symmetric key distribution ID in:

The headers: It's part of the document's title
The abstract: Where is says this mechanisms may be used to support MLAs
The introduction: As a lead in to a brief description of the differences
between symmetric and asymmetric cryptography
Paragraph 3.2.1 twice: Both as pointers to other document from the S/MIME WG
Paragraph 9: Copies names of documents for the references.

I'm not sure which of these you think should change.

Cheers,

spt

Blake Ramsdell wrote:

snip....

In the case of symkeydist, I still don't know if that was intended for
general CMS or S/MIME, so I will defer to the author of that document for
guidance, but there are indeed references to S/MIME.

Blake

-----Original Message-----
From: pgut001(_at_)cs(_dot_)auckland(_dot_)ac(_dot_)nz
To: Blake Ramsdell
Cc: ietf-smime(_at_)imc(_dot_)org
Sent: 7/20/2001 6:58 PM
Subject: Re: Password, compresion and symmetric keys -- are they CMS or
S/MIME ?

"Blake Ramsdell" <blaker(_at_)tumbleweed(_dot_)com> writes:

All three of these recent drafts (password, compression and symkeydist)
say
S/MIME.

Only the draft names because they're from the S/MIME WG.

Should any or all of these say CMS instead?

The titles say CMS (eg "Password-based Encryption for CMS").

No, I haven't read 'em to figure it out for myself.  Go ahead and chew
me up.

<chew></chew>

Peter.


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