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Re: Please review draft-housley-internet-draft-sig-file-00.txt

2008-01-24 16:28:14

Simon:

Thanks!  I prefer *.p7s for CMS.

I looked over the rest of the document, and it seems fine.

It would be useful to add to the security considerations that the
Secretariat SHOULD/MUST be careful to have correct time on their
machines.  Otherwise the Signing-Time attribute is not particularly
useful, as RFC 3852 doesn't require correctness of the value in that
attribute.

Good suggestion.  Will do.

Was allowing end-to-end signatures considered?  That would allow people
to be certain that the draft they retrieve from the IETF actually is the
same that was submitted to the IETF.

Yes, I thought about it, but I do not want to require authors to have certificates.

Russ