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| Internet Draft Editor: Blake Ramsdell, | Internet Draft Editor: Blake Ramsdell, | |||
| draft-ietf-smime-msg-07.txt Worldtalk | draft-ietf-smime-msg-08.txt Worldtalk | |||
| March 31, 1999 | April 23, 1999 | |||
| Expires September 30, 1999 | Expires October 23, 1999 | |||
| S/MIME Version 3 Message Specification | S/MIME Version 3 Message Specification | |||
| Status of this memo | Status of this memo | |||
| This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with all | This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with all | |||
| provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026. | provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026. | |||
| Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task | Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task | |||
| Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other | Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other | |||
| skipping to change at line 90 ¶ | skipping to change at line 90 ¶ | |||
| also derives from the likelihood that there will be S/MIME systems | also derives from the likelihood that there will be S/MIME systems | |||
| that involve software other than traditional Internet mail clients. | that involve software other than traditional Internet mail clients. | |||
| S/MIME can be used with any system that transports MIME data. An | S/MIME can be used with any system that transports MIME data. An | |||
| automated process that sends an encrypted message might not be able to | automated process that sends an encrypted message might not be able to | |||
| receive an encrypted message at all, for example. Thus, the | receive an encrypted message at all, for example. Thus, the | |||
| requirements and recommendations for the two types of agents are | requirements and recommendations for the two types of agents are | |||
| listed separately when appropriate. | listed separately when appropriate. | |||
| 1.2 Terminology | 1.2 Terminology | |||
| Throughout this draft, the terms MUST, MUST NOT, SHOULD, and SHOULD | The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", | |||
| NOT are used in capital letters. This conforms to the definitions in | "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this | |||
| [MUSTSHOULD]. [MUSTSHOULD] defines the use of these key words to help | document are to be interpreted as described in [MUSTSHOULD]. | |||
| make the intent of standards track documents as clear as possible. The | ||||
| same key words are used in this document to help implementors achieve | ||||
| interoperability. | ||||
| 1.3 Definitions | 1.3 Definitions | |||
| For the purposes of this draft, the following definitions apply. | For the purposes of this draft, the following definitions apply. | |||
| ASN.1: Abstract Syntax Notation One, as defined in CCITT X.208. | ASN.1: Abstract Syntax Notation One, as defined in CCITT X.208. | |||
| BER: Basic Encoding Rules for ASN.1, as defined in CCITT X.209. | BER: Basic Encoding Rules for ASN.1, as defined in CCITT X.209. | |||
| Certificate: A type that binds an entity's distinguished name to a | Certificate: A type that binds an entity's distinguished name to a | |||
| skipping to change at line 1360 ¶ | skipping to change at line 1357 ¶ | |||
| [RC2] "A Description of the RC2 (r) Encryption Algorithm", RFC 2268 | [RC2] "A Description of the RC2 (r) Encryption Algorithm", RFC 2268 | |||
| [SHA1] NIST FIPS PUB 180-1, "Secure Hash Standard," National Institute | [SHA1] NIST FIPS PUB 180-1, "Secure Hash Standard," National Institute | |||
| of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce, DRAFT, 31May | of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce, DRAFT, 31May | |||
| 1994. | 1994. | |||
| [SMIMEV2] "S/MIME Version 2 Message Specification", RFC 2311 | [SMIMEV2] "S/MIME Version 2 Message Specification", RFC 2311 | |||
| C. Acknowledgements | C. Acknowledgements | |||
| <TBD> | Many thanks go out to the other authors of the S/MIME Version 2 | |||
| Message Specification RFC: Steve Dusse, Paul Hoffman, Laurence | ||||
| Lundblade and Lisa Repka. Without v2, there wouldn't be a v3. | ||||
| A number of the members of the S/MIME Working Group have also worked | ||||
| very hard and contributed to this document. Any list of people is | ||||
| doomed to omission, and for that I apologize. In alphabetical order, | ||||
| the following people stand out in my mind due to the fact that they | ||||
| made direct contributions to this document. | ||||
| Dave Crocker | ||||
| Bill Flanigan | ||||
| Paul Hoffman | ||||
| Russ Housley | ||||
| John Pawling | ||||
| Jim Schaad | ||||
| D. Changes from last draft | D. Changes from last draft | |||
| Clarified section 2.4.1 in the case of multipart/signed (eContent is | Changed section 1.3 to contain correct reference language for | |||
| absent in that case) (Jim Schaad) | MUSTSHOULD (Thomas Narten) | |||
| Removed receipt request attribute from section 2.5 (Jim Schaad) | Renumbered section F to section E (Blake Ramsdell) | |||
| Capitalized MUST for use of the issuerAndSerialNumber CHOICE in | Changed section E to update author's address (Blake Ramsdell) | |||
| section 2.6 (Jim Schaad) | Changed <TBD> in section C to actual list (Blake Ramsdell) | |||
| Capitalized NOT in section 3.2.1 regarding reliance on file extensions | ||||
| (Jim Schaad) | ||||
| Changed [DH] reference to refer to draft-ietf-smime-x942-*.txt (Jim | ||||
| Schaad) | ||||
| Replaced section A with ASN.1 module (Jim Schaad) | ||||
| Rewording of 2.7.3 to explain that the content of the strongly- | ||||
| encrypted message can be learned by decrypting the weaker message | ||||
| (Russ Housley) | ||||
| Provided example OID. string for new smime-type values in section | ||||
| 3.2.2 (Russ Housley) | ||||
| Rewording of section 5 regarding sending two messages with different | ||||
| levels of encryption (Russ Housley) | ||||
| Added [RANDOM] reference in section 4.1 and to section B (Russ | ||||
| Housley) | ||||
| Explained in section 2.5.2 that section A contains all of the MUST and | ||||
| SHOULD OIDs (Russ Housley) | ||||
| Added language to 2.2 and 2.3 about S/MIME v2 clients only have | ||||
| rsaEncryption (Paul Hoffman) | ||||
| F. Edito's address | E. Editor’s address | |||
| Blake Ramsdell | Blake Ramsdell | |||
| Worldtalk | Worldtalk | |||
| 13122 NE 20th St., Suite C | 17720 NE 65th St Ste 201 | |||
| Bellevue, WA 98005 | Redmond, WA 98052 | |||
| (425) 882-8861 | +1 425 376 0225 | |||
| blaker@deming.com | blaker@deming.com | |||
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