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Another Potential Work Item

2009-05-06 17:47:14

I have had a new draft posted as an individual draft.  I would like the
working group to consider adopting the draft as a WG item.

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-turner-additional-smimecaps-00.txt provides a list of SMIME capabilities. Some are already contained in RFCs and some are not. What I'm trying to figure out is whether we should relax the requirements in S/MIME MSG (all the way back to RFC 2311, 2633, 3851, and 3851bis) that say "In the event that there are no differentiating parameters for a particular OID, the parameters MUST be omitted, and MUST NOT be encoded as NULL." I think many implementations and a few RFCs didn't follow this requirement, e.g., ECDSA, ECDH, ECMQV in RFC 3278 and RSAES-OAEP in RFC 3560. We'd also like to lock down what implementations do for RSA with *.

spt

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