Re: Registering smime-types

[Russ Housley <housley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The MIME types used by S/MIME are defined.  Not every CMS content
type has a MIME type.  They could be defined, but up to now, we have
been waiting for the need to surface first.

Russ

At 03:47 PM 6/16/2008, Turner, Sean P. wrote:

> Alfred's comment
> about updating the IANA registry for pkcs7-smime and pkcs7-signature got
> me to thinking about the smime-types that are currently used. 
> signed-data, enveloped-data, certs-only, and compressed-data are
> addressed in RFC 3851 but the other content types we've defined
> (authenticated-data, encrypted-data, and authEnveloped-data) and others
> (content-with-attributes, content-collection, and others) don't have
> smime-types defined.  Are these others used/defined someplace I
> don’t know about?
>
> spt