The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) Multiple Signer Clarification ' <draft-ietf-smime-cms-mult-sign-03.txt> as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the S/MIME Mail Security Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Sam Hartman and Russ Housley. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-smime-cms-mult-sign-03.txt Technical Summary This document clarifies the proper recipient handling of the SignedData content type when more than one digital signature is present. This draft updates RFC 3852. Working Group Summary There was consensus to publish this within the WG. One person raised two last call comments in IETF last call. The first issue concerned how to handle signatures from different signers. This issue was addressed. The second issue proposed expanding the scope of the document to give more guidance on verifying signatures. This was discussed by the WG before the document was forwarded; there was no consensus to expand the scope in this way. Protocol Quality This document has been reviewed by Sam Hartman for the IESG. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
