I'm considering this issue resolved, unless Jim wants to re-open the
discussion.
Russ
At 01:49 PM 5/8/2007, Peter Gutmann wrote:
Russ Housley <housley(_at_)vigilsec(_dot_)com> writes:
>CMS needs to support all of these situations. The question is
which case the
>syntax is optimized to handle. All of them are accommodated. I
believe that
>we have always in the past arranged the field placement to permit the
>recipient to handle the stream efficiently.
The existing format allows both the sender and the recipient to handle the
stream efficiently - that's the nice thing about the existing format, both
low-powered senders and low-powered recipients can handle it (and if you're
streaming in the order of gigabytes of data in real time, almost everything
falls into the "low-powered" class). So in the past the field placement seems
to have been designed to allow both sides to handle the stream efficiently,
which seems to have worked pretty well so far. If the existing PKCS #7/CMS
field format has worked just fine and handled all sorts of applications for
15-odd years, why change it now?
Peter.