The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Suite B in Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) ' <draft-housley-smime-suite-b-02.txt> as an Informational RFC This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working Group. The IESG contact person is Tim Polk. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-housley-smime-suite-b-02.txt Technical Summary This document specifies the conventions for using the United States National Security Agency's Suite B algorithms in Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME). By specifying the use of Suite B in S/MIME and the underlying Cryptographic Message Syntax structures (i.e, the signed-data and the enveloped-data content types), this specification supports interopable deployment of IETF protocols to new user communities. Working Group Summary ID publication was posted on the S/MIME working group list, but there was no discussion in the list. The technical content is a straightforward application of the Suite B cryptographic Suite to the S/MIME specifications, and was not perceived to be controversial. Protocol Quality Tim Polk reviewed this specification for the IESG. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
