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Re: [secdir] Secdir review of draft-baker-ietf-core-03.txt

Paul Hoffman <phoffman@imc.org> Sun, 22 November 2009 18:11 UTC

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At 6:05 AM +0900 11/22/09, Fred Baker wrote:
>Hmm. I wonder of one of the directorate members would like to suggest better text for the section? I don't claim any expertise on that topic.

3.1.4 Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)

The CMS [RFC3852] specification defines how to digitally sign,
digest, authenticate, and encrypt message content. It is commonly
used for email with S/MIME [RFC3851] and other message-based (as
compared to session-based) protocols.

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