The IESG has approved the following document: - 'PKCS #12: Personal Information Exchange Syntax v1.1' (draft-moriarty-pkcs12v1-1-05.txt) as 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 Stephen Farrell. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-moriarty-pkcs12v1-1/ Technical Summary The content of the document is substantially the same as the source PKCS12 document with the necessary changes to publish it as an IETF RFC and to correct a few minor technical issues. The document describes an ASN1-based transfer syntax for personal identity information, including private keys, certificates, miscellaneous secrets, and extensions. Machines, applications, browsers, Internet kiosks, and so on, that support this standard will allow a user to import, export, and exercise a single set of personal identity information. This standard supports direct transfer of personal information under several privacy and integrity modes. Working Group Summary The document action is primarily a publication to document the transfer of copyright from RSA/EMC to the IETF. As such, this has been handled as an individual submission from the current copyright holder with AD input. The security area AD's believe this specification to be a useful addition to the set of IETF documents and expect it to be the basis for the publication of future IETF standards based on the original PKCS12 work, similar to what has previously happened with PKCS7. Document Quality PKCS12-based implementations are wide spread and well understood. This document is a comprehensive and complete discussion of the current PKCS12 framework with the addition of code points to support more recently defined cryptographic mechanisms. The document references are up to date and appear to be complete. Personnel Michael StJohns is the Shepherd. Sean Turner was the responsible AD. Stephen Farrell took over.
