The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) Version 3.2 Certificate Handling ' <draft-ietf-smime-3850bis-11.txt> as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the S/MIME Mail Security Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Tim Polk and Pasi Eronen. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-smime-3850bis-11.txt Technical Summary This document specifies the conventions for X.509 certificates for use with S/MIME agents. It is the third update of the S/MIME Certificate Handling specification (aka S/MIME CERT v3.2) and it will obsolete RFC 3850, when approved. Note that Annex A recommends moving RFC2312, which is S/MIME CERT v2, to historic status. Working Group Summary The majority of the S/MIME WG discussion was on what key sizes and which algorithms to support. The initial proposal included ECC algorithms as SHOULDs, but they were removed. After removal of the ECC algorithms, the S/MIME WG quickly reached a concensus on the algorithms. The key size discussion had two camps "go big" and "be realistic". The rough consensus is somewhere in the middle and is supported by widely deployed implementations. Document Quality S/MIME has numerous implementations. In fact, many implementations already support the algorithms and key sizes specied in this document, with the exception of RSA-PSS. Personnel Russ Housley is the document Shepherd. Tim Polk is the responsible Security Area AD. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
