The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'CMS Advanced Electronic Signatures (CAdES) '
<draft-ietf-smime-cades-07.txt> as an Informational RFC
This document is the product of the S/MIME Mail Security Working Group.
The IESG contact persons are Tim Polk and Sam Hartman.
A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-smime-cades-07.txt
Technical Summary
This document defines the format of an electronic signature that can
remain valid over long periods. This includes evidence as to its
validity even if the signer or verifying party later attempts to deny
(i.e., repudiates the validity of the signature). The format can be
considered as an extension to RFC 3852 [4] and RFC 2634 [5],
where, when appropriate additional signed and unsigned attributes
have been defined.
The contents of this Informational RFC amounts to a
transposition of the ETSI TS 101 733 V.1.7.3 (CMS Advanced
Electronic Signatures - CAdES) [TS101733] and is technically
equivalent to it.
Working Group Summary
While this work was initatiated in ETSI, this document was also
discussed by the S/MIME working group. Issues were identified
and resolved to maintain compatibility with implementations of
RFC 3126, which it obsoletes.
Protocol Quality
Tim Polk reviewed this document for the IESG.