Protocol Action: 'Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) Version 3.2 Message Specification' to Proposed Standard

[The IESG <[e-mail]>]

The IESG has approved the following document:

- 'Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) Version 3.2 
   Message Specification '
   <draft-ietf-smime-3851bis-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-3851bis-11.txt

Technical Summary

     This document specifies the Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail
     Extensions (S/MIME) version 3.2. It is the third update of the
     S/MIME Message Specification (aka S/MIME MSG v3.2) and it will
     obsolete RFC 3851, when approved.  Note that Annex A recommends
     moving RFC 2311, which is S/MIME MSG 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 consensus
     on the algorithms. The key size discussion had two camps "go big"
     and "be realistic".  The rough consensus is pragmatic and is
     supported by widely deployed implementations, but permits use of
     relatively small key sizes.

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 and RSA-OAEP.

Personnel

     Russ Housley is the document Shepherd.
     Tim Polk is the responsible Security Area AD.

RFC Editor Note

Please make the following substitution in Appendix A, replacing RFC XXXX
with the number assigned to this RFC:

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