Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-smime-3850bis-11.txt

[Sean Turner <turners@xxxxxxxx>]

Internet-Drafts@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts 
> directories.
> This draft is a work item of the S/MIME Mail Security Working Group of the IETF.
>
> 	Title		: Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) Version 3.2 Certificate Handling
> 	Author(s)	: S. Turner, B. Ramsdell
> 	Filename	: draft-ietf-smime-3850bis-11.txt
> 	Pages		: 22
> 	Date		: 2009-5-14
> 	
> This document specifies conventions for X.509 certificate usage by 
>    Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) v3.2 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 5280, 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 5280. This document obsoletes 
>    RFC 3850.
>
> A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-smime-3850bis-11.txt

This version includes revisions to adopt DSA key sizes comparable to RSA 
and updates the security considerations accordingly.  Tim Polk says an 
approved FIPS 186-3 is going to be published any day now and this will 
save us some time (we were pinned on it being published anyway).

spt