Re: draft-housley-binarytime-00.txt

pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann) Fri, 17 September 2004 17:18 UTC

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Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com> writes:

>The application itself is not ready for release to the IETF, and it may never
>be released to the IETF.  However, please take a look at draft-housley-cms-
>fw-wrap.  This has many properties in common with the application that is not
>yet ready for release.  Basically, a content type is defined, and the use of
>CMS to protect that content type is specified.  S/MIME is not used, only CMS.

If it's meant for use in fw-wrap, couldn't it just be specified as an extra
attribute in there, along with the other attributes that fw-wrap introduces?

Peter.