Document Action: 'Suite B in Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME)' to Informational RFC

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.

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