The charter of the S/MIME Mail Security (smime) working group in the Security Area of the IETF has been updated. For additional information, please contact the Area Directors or the working group Chairs. +++ S/MIME Mail Security (smime) ============================== Currect Status: Active Working Group Chair(s): Sean Turner <turners@ieca.com> Blake Ramsdell <blake@sendmail.com> Security Area Director(s): Tim Polk <tim.polk@nist.gov> Sam Hartman <hartmans-ietf@mit.edu> Security Area Advisor: Tim Polk <tim.polk@nist.gov> Mailing Lists: General Discussion: ietf-smime@imc.org To Subscribe: ietf-smime-request@imc.org Archive: http://www.imc.org/ietf-smime/ Description of Working Group: The S/MIME WG was established in the winter of 1997 to define MIME encapsulation techniques of objects whose format was based on PKCS#7 (RFC2315). These encapsulation techniques can be used to provide security services for an arbitrary encapsulated content. Initially the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) (RFC2630) was not algorithm independent; however, the 1st revision separated the syntax (RFC3369) and the algorithms (RFC3370) to allow the two to be updated without affecting one another. Since this split, other documents have been written to document the use of CMS with other algorithms (e.g., ECDSA, AES, GOST). Also since the initial CMS, additional key management techniques (e.g., password-based and an extensible type) and encapsulation techniques (e.g., compression) have been added and other documents have been written to add additional security services. CMS is also transport independent, and documents have been written to define a consistent way to transport MIME objects. The S/MIME specifications, one for the message specification and another for certificate handling, have been updated to migrate algorithms over time. Appropriate WG topics are as follows: - Specifications for the use of additional cryptographic algorithms with CMS. - Specifications that define additional CMS content types. - Specifications to document algorithm migration of S/MIME. - With the approval of the area director, specifications that define additional CMS security services. The WG will perform interoperability testing to progress the CMS and S/MIME Specifications to Draft Standard. Submit S/MIME Message Specification as Proposed Standard Dec 2007 Submit S/MIME Certificate Handling as Proposed Standard Dec 2007 Submit SHA-2 algorithms with CMS as Proposed Standard Dec 2007 Submit CMS as Draft Standard Dec 2008 Submit necessary algorithms documents* as Draft Standard Dec 2008 Submit Enhanced Security Services as Draft Standard Dec 2008 Submit S/MIME Message Specification as Draft Standard Dec 2008 Submit S/MIME Certificate Handling as Draft Standard Dec 2008 _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
