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Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-smime-cms-mult-sign-02.txt

2006-11-10 06:19:24

Russ,

The issue is more complex than presented.  :-(

The idea is to say that a message is correctly signed by a given signer, if one 
of the signatures 
from the *same* signer computed using a different signature algorithm is valid.

Correct ?

In the same section from RFC 3852, just above we have:

"   The process by which signed-data is constructed involves the
   following steps:

      1. For each signer, a message digest, or hash value, is computed
         on the content with a signer-specific message-digest algorithm.
         If the signer is signing any information other than the
         content, the message digest of the content and the other
         information are digested with the signer's message digest
         algorithm (see Section 5.4), and the result becomes the
         "message digest."

      2. For each signer, the message digest is digitally signed using
         the signer's private key.

      3. For each signer, the signature value and other signer-specific
         information are collected into a SignerInfo value, as defined
         in Section 5.3.  Certificates and CRLs for each signer, and
         those not corresponding to any signer, are collected in this
         step.

      4. The message digest algorithms for all the signers and the
         SignerInfo values for all the signers are collected together
         with the content into a SignedData value, as defined in Section
         5.1".

We should have a similar construct for verification, but we don't. 
It should start with:

   The process by which signed-data is verified involves the
   following steps:

  1. For each SignerInfo present in SignerInfos ...

The exercise is more difficult than it looks, because unless ESSCertID is being 
used, 
it is not possible to know for sure that a signature is from the same signer.

Denis

A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts 
directories.
This draft is a work item of the S/MIME Mail Security Working Group of the 
IETF.

      Title           : Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) Multiple Signer 
Clarification
      Author(s)       : R. Housley
      Filename        : draft-ietf-smime-cms-mult-sign-02.txt
      Pages           : 5
      Date            : 2006-11-9
      
This document updates the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS), which
  is published in RFC 3852.  This document clarifies the proper
  handling of the SignedData protected content type when more than one
  digital signature is present.

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Regards,

Denis Pinkas