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

Tero Kivinen <kivinen@iki.fi> Wed, 25 November 2009 12:01 UTC

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Subject: Re: [IPsec] #118: Reference for PKCS #7
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Yaron Sheffer writes:
> Russ later pointed out that there are multiple RFCs defining PKCS
> #7. Inputs on current implementations are welcome. 
> 
> PKCS#7  should reference RFC 2315<http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2315>.

I think the two options is either RFC5652 (latest CMS) or RFC2315
(original PKCS#7). All other of the rfcs have been obsoleted by the
RFC5652.

I do not know enough of the later CMS versions, but RFC2630 says that
it should be backward compatible with RFC2315 expect where it was
changed to "accommodate attribute certificate transfer and key
agreement techniques for key management".

As I do not think we need any of those in IKEv2, I think it is enough
to refer to the RFC2315. 
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