RE: WG Last Call: cmsalg

[Magnus Nystrom <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, it turns out that they indeed are freely available:

http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/asn1/database/itu-t/x/index.html

Many Thanks to Hoyt Kesterson for informing me about this. Hoyt
mentioned to me that the database perhaps is not complete yet; a quick
look however indicates that all needed v3 modules are in place.

So, perhaps S/MIME could reference these modules after all...

BR,
-- Magnus

On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Magnus Nystrom wrote:

> ...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.