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RE: cmsalg-02 RSA OID Proposal

2001-09-12 07:27:49

Terry,

Thank you for reporting that the cmsalg-02 proposal to require the use of
the md5WithRSAEncryption or sha1WithRSAEncryption OID (as appropriate) in
the signedData signerInfo signatureAlgorithm field when the RSA (PKCS #1
v1.5) algorithm is used as part of the signature generation process is
incompatible with the Netscape Communicator S/MIME (CMS) implementation. 

Based on that fact, I agree that the son-of-RFC2633 S/MIME v3 Message Spec
should mandate the use of the rsaEncryption OID in the signedData signerInfo
signatureAlgorithm field when the RSA (PKCS #1 v1.5) algorithm is used as
part of the signature generation process.

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John Pawling, John(_dot_)Pawling(_at_)GetronicsGov(_dot_)com
Getronics Government Solutions, LLC
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