The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft 'Use of the AES Encryption Algorithm in CMS' <draft-ietf-smime-aes-alg-07.txt> as a Proposed Standard. This document is the product of the S/MIME Mail Security Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Steven Bellovin and Russ Housley. Technical Summary This specification describes how to use the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) with the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS). It gives the ASN.1 necessary when AES is used with each recipient's public RSA key, with a Diffie-Hellman key exchange, with a previously distributed symmetric key, and with a key derived from a password. Working Group Summary There was no significant disagreement. Protocol Quality This specification was reviewed for the IESG by Steve Bellovin.
