The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft 'CMS Symmetric Key Management and Distribution' <draft-ietf-smime-symkeydist-09.txt> as a Proposed Standard. This document is the product of the S/MIME Mail Security Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Jeffrey Schiller and Steve Bellovin. Technical Summary This document extends the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) to support the use of symmetric (traditional) encryption in addition to public key encryption. It describes an architecture that can be used by Groups of entities (or Mailing Lists) to securely distribute a Group Key which can be used to symmetrically encrypt CMS objects. Working Group Summary The working group had consensus on this document. Protocol Quality This document has been reviewed for the IESG by Jeff Schiller.
