RE: WG Last Call: cmsalg

[Magnus Nystrom <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

...though of course X.509 ASN.1 modules are not freely available
(AFAIK),

Sorry for any confusion,
-- Magnus

On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Magnus Nystrom wrote:

> John Pawling wrote:
>
> [...]
> > I agree with Jim Schaad that the S/MIME specs should reference
> > the ASN.1 modules in the PKIX documents instead of the ITU-T
> > documents.  The PKIX documents are freely available to all, but the
> > ITU-T documents are not.
>
> This is not true; all ITU-T ASN.1 documents are available at:
>
> http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/studygroups/com10/languages/index.html
>
> Further, the ASN.1 in PKIX docs is not correct (use of UNIVERSAL
> tags), which complicates matters for those using standards-compliant
> compilers.