Russ,
I agree that the cmsalg proposed change would increase the consistency of
the use of the md5WithRSAEncryption, sha1WithRSAEncryption, and
rsaEncryption OIDs in PKIX X.509 certificates and CMS signedData content
types. However, I don't believe that the increase in consistency would be
worth breaking backwards compatibility with legacy CMS implementations.
Before we make a decision, I believe that we need further input from the
various implementers so that we know the extent to which this change would
break backwards compatibility with legacy CMS implementations.
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John Pawling, John(_dot_)Pawling(_at_)GetronicsGov(_dot_)com
Getronics Government Solutions, LLC
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