RE: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-smime-3850bis-04.txt

["Jim Schaad" <ietf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Comments on the draft.

In section 4.4.3, I find the following text confusing:

End-entity certificates contain an extension that 
   constrains the certificate from being an issuing authority 
   certificate (see Section 4.4.2). 


I believe that this text might be better as it clarifies what is being
stated.  I.e. it is not the fact that basic constraints is being used which
actually does the mentioned constraint.


End-entity certificates contain the Key Usage extension which restraints the
end-entity from using the key to perform issuing authority operations (see
4.4.4)

Also the previous comment (on 3851bis) on key sizes > 4096 should be applied
to this document

jim

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> This draft is a work item of the S/MIME Mail Security Working Group of
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> 	Title		: Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
> (S/MIME) Version 3.2 Certificate Handling
> 	Author(s)	: S. Turner, B. Ramsdell
> 	Filename	: draft-ietf-smime-3850bis-04.txt
> 	Pages		: 20
> 	Date		: 2008-6-30
> 
> This document specifies conventions for X.509 certificate usage by
>    Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) agents.
> S/MIME
>    provides a method to send and receive secure MIME messages, and
>    certificates are an integral part of S/MIME agent processing.
> S/MIME agents validate certificates as described in RFC 3280bis, the
>    Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and CRL
> Profile.
>    S/MIME agents must meet the certificate processing requirements in
>    this document as well as those in RFC 3280bis. This document
>    obsoletes RFC 3850.
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