Re: x942-06 Comment

Russ Housley <housley@spyrus.com> Wed, 24 March 1999 23:26 UTC

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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 02:04:34 -0500
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From: Russ Housley <housley@spyrus.com>
Subject: Re: x942-06 Comment
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Agree.


At 10:28 AM 3/24/99 -0500, John Pawling wrote:
>All,
>
>The 22-Mar-99 Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement Method I-D (x942-06), Section
>2.1.2 includes the following text regarding the KeySpecificInfo algorithm
>field:  "algorithm is the ASN.1 algorithm OID of the MEK wrapping algorithm
>with which this KEK will be used."  Recommend that "MEK" should be changed
>to "CEK" in the above text because "MEK" is not defined/used in the S/MIME
>v3 set of specs
>
>=========================================================
>John Pawling,  Director - Systems Engineering
>J.G. Van Dyke & Associates, Inc., a Wang Global Company
>=========================================================
>