Stefan:
I was happy with the way you addressed most of my Nov 11, 2004 comments, however
one comment (3.1) may not have been fully addressed and is relevant to Jim's:
When viewing this draft from the viewpoint of enterprises using multiple
key-pairs (e.g. dual keypairs), some S/MIME Capabilities should probably be in
certain certificates (and optionally or never in others). For example, it
appears to make no sense to put the encryption algorithm choices in the signing
certificate in dual-keypair configurations. Some attributes might be in both
certs (e.g. compression capabilities), however there should also be a note that
for those attributes in both certs they must be the same.
So if you make changes to address Jim's comment could I request you take another
look at comment 3.1 in http://www.imc.org/ietf-smime/mail-archive/msg02117.html
- and especially review the revised certcapa text in the contest of multiple
keypair configs where there is more than one public key certificate
corresponding to the entity?
Thanks
Tony
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ietf-smime(_at_)mail(_dot_)imc(_dot_)org
[mailto:owner-ietf-smime(_at_)mail(_dot_)imc(_dot_)org] On
Behalf Of Jim Schaad
Sent: February 16, 2005 12:46 PM
To: ietf(_at_)augustcellars(_dot_)com; 'Stefan Santesson'
Cc: ietf-smime(_at_)imc(_dot_)org
Subject: RE: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-smime-certcapa-02.txt
Stefan,
I am not really happy with how the following item was addressed.
2. I would like to see the addition of a paragraph
describing the types of capabilities that are expected to be
listed. It seems obious that bulk encryption algorithms are
listed as, potentially, are key encryption algorithms
(consider RSA-OAEP as an example). However it is not clear
about some of the other potential capabililties. What about
signature and hash algorithms? What about MAC algorithms?
What about S/MIME specifics such as id-cap-preferBinaryInside?
Since I did not care for the paragraph that you have, I am suggesting the
following paragraph instead.
There are numerous different types of S/MIME capabilities that have been
defined by different documents. While all of the different capabilties can
be placed in this attribute, in many cases not all of them need to be
included. Generally only those items relating to encryption capabities are
included.
- Signature/Hash Algorithms: As a general rule, the signature processing
capaiblities of a client are assumed rather than checked, this means that if
they are placed in this extension they may be ignored.
- Content Encryption Algorrithms: This is the general set of capabities that
will be placed in the extension.
- Key Encryption/Key Transport Algorithms: These capabilities are placed in
the extension in thoses cases where additional constraints are placed on the
the public key algorithm. (An example would be using RSA-OAEP for a generic
RSA key.)
- MAC Algorithms: These capabilties are genreally omitted from the
extension.
- Other capabitlies: This includes such items as binary content prefered.
These capabilties may or may not be generally included depending on wither
the item is related to encryption or signature operations.