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Q: Ordering of encryption and signing of a S/MIME message

2002-10-17 07:22:03
Hi to all!

My Question is:
Is it useful a message as first to encrypt and 
then to sign the encrypted result,
in example the encapsulatedData of a pkcs7SignedData structure 
is a pkcs7encrypted data structure?
I know, it's senseless... ;-) but i found nothing in the standards.
Is there any sensible reason against this procedure(i hope so)?

thanks in advance.

with kind regards
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Bernd Matthes                   Gemplus mids GmbH --
Senior Software Engineer           formerly Celo Communications GmbH
Dipl.-Ing.(FH)                  R&D Center Germany
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