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RE: Who has tried some or all of the S/MIME examples?

2003-05-08 11:47:32

I believe that we should be using id-dsa-with-sha1.

Russ


> > 5.1.bin - failed
> >       1.  signatureAlgorithm is 1.2.840.10040.4.1 not 1.2.840.10040.4.3
>
> From RFC3370, section 3.1:
>
>    The algorithm identifier for DSA with SHA-1 signature values is:
>
>       id-dsa-with-sha1 OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { iso(1) member-body(2)
>           us(840) x9-57 (10040) x9cm(4) 3 }
>
>    When the id-dsa-with-sha1 algorithm identifier is used, the
>    AlgorithmIdentifier parameters field MUST be absent.
>
>
> From RFC2630, section 12.2.1:
>
>    The DSA signature algorithm is defined in FIPS Pub 186 [DSS].  DSA is
>    always used with the SHA-1 message digest algorithm.  The algorithm
>    identifier for DSA is:
>
>       id-dsa-with-sha1 OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::=  { iso(1) member-body(2)
>           us(840) x9-57 (10040) x9cm(4) 3 }
>
>    The AlgorithmIdentifier parameters field must not be present.
>
>
> From RFC2633, section 2.2:
>
>    Sending and receiving agents MUST support id-dsa defined in [DSS].
>    The algorithm parameters MUST be absent (not encoded as NULL).
>
>
> From RFC2633, Appendix A:
>
> -- id-dsa OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::=
> --    {iso(1) member-body(2) us(840) x9-57(10040) x9cm(4) 1 }
>
>
> From rfc2633bis-03:
>
> Receiving agents MUST support id-dsa defined in [CMSALG]. The
> algorithm parameters MUST be absent (not encoded as NULL).
> Receiving agents MUST support rsaEncryption, defined in [CMSALG].
>
>
> From RFC3370, section 3.1:
>
>       id-dsa OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { iso(1) member-body(2)
>           us(840) x9-57 (10040) x9cm(4) 1 }
>
>
> So the bottom line is that CMS says one thing
> (id-dsa-with-sha1), and MSG says something else (id-dsa).
> Consensus welcome.  We went round and round about this at one
> point, due to the use of the rsaEncryption value vs. the use
> of the sha-1WithRSAEncryption value.
>
> Recommend accept both, emit id-dsa-with-sha1, change the
> samples to use id-dsa-with-sha1 and changing rfc2633bis to say:
>
>
> 2.2 SignatureAlgorithmIdentifier
>
> Receiving agents MUST support id-dsa-with-sha1 defined in
> [CMSALG]. The algorithm parameters MUST be absent (not
> encoded as NULL). Receiving agents MUST support
> rsaEncryption, defined in [CMSALG].
>
> Sending agents MUST support either id-dsa-with-sha1 or rsaEncryption.
>
> Note that S/MIME v3 clients might only implement signing or
> signature verification using id-dsa-with-sha1, and might also
> use id-dsa as an AlgorithmIdentifier in this field. Receiving
> clients SHOULD recognize id-dsa as equivalent to
> id-dsa-with-sha1, and sending clients MUST use
> id-dsa-with-sha1 if using that algorithm. Also note that
> S/MIME v2 clients are only capable of verifying digital
> signatures using the rsaEncryption algorithm.
>
> Blake
>