The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Use of Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) Algorithms in Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) ' <draft-ietf-smime-3278bis-09.txt> as an Informational RFC 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-3278bis-09.txt Technical Summary This document describes how to use Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) public-key algorithms in the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS). The ECC algorithms support the creation of digital signatures and the exchange of keys to encrypt or authenticate content. The definition of the algorithm processing is based on the NIST FIPS 186-3 for digital signatures, NIST SP800-56A and SEC1 for key agreement, RFC 3370 and RFC 3565 for key wrap and content encryption, NIST FIPS 180-3 for message digest, SEC1 for key derivation, and RFC 2104 and RFC 4231 for message authentication code standards. This document obsoletes RFC 3278. Working Group Summary This document was discussed on the S/MIME WG mailing list. The discussion was primarily about document quality and consistency. Document Quality Implementations of SignedData with ECDSA and EnvelopedData with ECDH have been available for some time from multiple vendors. Implementation of the "new" algorithms (i.e., using SHA-2 and AES algorithms) is expected shortly, now that the relevant NIST documents (e.g., FIPS 186-3) have been finalized. Personnel Russ Housley is the document PROTO Shepherd. Tim Polk is the responsible Security Area AD. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
