Re: CMS attributes question

[Peter Gutmann <pgut001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Russ Housley <housley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>Unrecognized attributes are ignored.  RFC 3852 requires support for the
>content type and message digest attributes, but all others can be ignored if
>they are not recognized.

In addition handling of content-type seems to be pretty hit-and-miss, I've
seen messages created by different implementations that have no content-type
and nothing seems to mind (well, my code did which is why I noticed it :-) but
there don't seem to have been sufficient problems caused by other
implementations complaining that the developers felt the need to fix things.

Peter.