Re: [Jmap] Last Call: <draft-ietf-jmap-smime-07.txt> (S/MIME signature verification extension to JMAP) to Proposed Standard

Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com> Tue, 24 August 2021 19:33 UTC

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From: Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com>
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Subject: Re: [Jmap] Last Call: <draft-ietf-jmap-smime-07.txt> (S/MIME signature verification extension to JMAP) to Proposed Standard
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If the server performs a signature verification, and then the client performs a signature verification, the results might not be the same due to different trust anchor stores or a revocation that takes place between the two verifications.  I think this situation should be described in the Security Considerations.

Russ


> On Aug 23, 2021, at 12:34 PM, The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> The IESG has received a request from the JSON Mail Access Protocol WG (jmap)
> to consider the following document: - 'S/MIME signature verification
> extension to JMAP'
>  <draft-ietf-jmap-smime-07.txt> as Proposed Standard
> 
> The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final
> comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the
> last-call@ietf.org mailing lists by 2021-09-04. Exceptionally, comments may
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> Abstract
> 
>   This document specifies an extension to JMAP for returning S/MIME
>   signature verification status.
> 
> The file can be obtained via
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-jmap-smime/
>