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Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-smime-3850bis-11.txt

2009-05-14 15:32:02

Internet-Drafts(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org wrote:
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           : Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) 
Version 3.2 Certificate Handling
        Author(s)       : S. Turner, B. Ramsdell
        Filename        : draft-ietf-smime-3850bis-11.txt
        Pages           : 22
        Date            : 2009-5-14
        
This document specifies conventions for X.509 certificate usage by Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) v3.2 agents. S/MIME provides a method to send and receive secure MIME messages, and certificates are an integral part of S/MIME agent processing. S/MIME agents validate certificates as described in RFC 5280, the Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and CRL Profile. S/MIME agents must meet the certificate processing requirements in this document as well as those in RFC 5280. This document obsoletes RFC 3850.

A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-smime-3850bis-11.txt

This version includes revisions to adopt DSA key sizes comparable to RSA and updates the security considerations accordingly. Tim Polk says an approved FIPS 186-3 is going to be published any day now and this will save us some time (we were pinned on it being published anyway).

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