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RE: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-sip-smime-aes-00.txt

2003-03-04 16:50:12


I'm glad that the draft is some of interest to this WG, since we could
probably use some advice from the S/MIME experts on our direction.

This document proposes to profile S/MIME for SIP, specifically by exchanging
the mandatory Triple-DES encryption algorithm requirement for AES. Some of
the reasons why AES would be a better fit for SIP are given in the draft.
There is, however, some concern that this might lead to non-interoperability
with standard S/MIME stacks, and so on.

I see that rfc2633bis 2.7 makes Triple-DES mandatory. Is it likely that
S/MIME down the road will require AES? Does the proposal in this draft seem
like a wrong-headed profile to this WG?

Jon Peterson
NeuStar, Inc.

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Of interest to this WG...

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A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts 
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This draft is a work item of the Session Initiation Protocol Working 
Group of the IETF.

    Title           : S/MIME AES Requirement for SIP
    Author(s)       : J. Peterson
    Filename        : draft-ietf-sip-smime-aes-00.txt
    Pages           : 6
    Date            : 2003-2-26

RFC3261 currently specifies 3DES as the required minimum ciphersuite
for implementations of S/MIME in SIP.  This document updates the
normative guidance of RFC3261 to require the Advanced Encryption
Standard (AES) for S/MIME.

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