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RE: cmsalg-02 Comments

2001-08-31 10:50:10

John:

>3) Sec 3.2 specifies that the md5WithRSAEncryption or sha1WithRSAEncryption
>OID should be used in the signerInfo signatureAlgorithm field instead of
the
>id-rsaEncryption OID.  I agree with this strategy, but please note that
this
>is a change from what is specified in RFC 2630.  RFC2630 specifies the use
>of id-rsaEncryption in the signerInfo signatureAlgorithm field.  Is this
>change going to cause backwards compatibility problems with legacy CMS
>implementations?

I want to highlight this point.  As you say, it might be controversial.  I
will start a thread to discuss this point.

[JSP: I already started a separate thread.]

Me too....

Russ

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