S/MIME Working Group Status

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S/MIME Working Group Status

• Russ Housley
• December 2000
• PLEASE SIGN THE BLUE SHEET

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RFC Publication Status

• 2630 Cryptographic Message Syntax. R. Housley.
  June 1999.
• 2631 Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement Method. E.
  Rescorla. June 1999.
• 2632 S/MIME Version 3 Certificate Handling. B.
  Ramsdell, Ed. June 1999.
• 2633 S/MIME Version 3 Message Specification.
  B. Ramsdell, Ed. June 1999.
• 2634 Enhanced Security Services for S/MIME. P.
  Hoffman, Ed. June 1999.
• 2785 Methods for Avoiding the "Small-Subgroup"
  Attacks on the Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement
  Method for S/MIME. R. Zuccherato. March 2000.
  Informational
• 2876 Use of the KEA and SKIPJACK Algorithms in
  CMS. J. Pawling. July 2000. Informational
• 2984 Use of the CAST-128 Encryption Algorithm
  in CMS. C. Adams. October 2000.

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Advancement to Draft Standard

• Requirements documented in RFC 2026
• Stable, Mature, and Useful Specification
• At least two independent and interoperable
  implementations from different code bases
• Draft Standards cannot reference Proposed
  Standard RFCs or Experimental RFCs
• Blocked until Son-of-RFC 2459 progresses to Draft
  Standard

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Interoperability Testing

• Jim Schaad developed interoperability matrix for
  CMS, Diffie-Hellman, MSG, CERT, and ESS documents
• Posted at IMC web site
• In March, Paul Hoffman (IMC) offered to
• Coordinate interoperability testing
• Editor for CMS and ESS Examples document