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Re: [IPsec] #118: Reference for PKCS #7

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Tue, 24 November 2009 18:29 UTC

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Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:29:05 -0800
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At 7:09 PM +0200 11/24/09, Yaron Sheffer wrote:
>Russ later pointed out that there are multiple RFCs defining PKCS #7. Inputs on current implementations are welcome.
> 
>PKCS#7  should reference <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2315>RFC 2315.

I think we should leave this as UNSPECIFIED. There are many ways to wrap an X.509 certificate in a CMS message, and we don't know what any vendor has done.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium

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