Re: Compression within RFC2633bis?

Blake:

Good point.

Russ

At 02:18 PM 4/18/2002 -0700, Blake Ramsdell wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Housley, Russ" <rhousley(_at_)rsasecurity(_dot_)com>
> To: <Francois(_dot_)Rousseau(_at_)CSE-CST(_dot_)GC(_dot_)CA>
> Cc: <blake(_at_)brutesquadlabs(_dot_)com>; 
> <pgut001(_at_)cs(_dot_)aucKland(_dot_)ac(_dot_)nz>;
> <ietf-smime(_at_)imc(_dot_)org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 1:37 PM
> Subject: Re: Compression within RFC2633bis?
>
>
> > Yes.  I think that RFC2633bis out to say that compression MAY be applied
> > before encryption or signing.  It should probably indicate that
> compression
> > should only be applied once for a particular message.
>
> I think that an S/MIME capability should be used to negotiate this
> beforehand, if we're going to head down this path.
>
> Blake