RE: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-smime-aes-alg-07.txt

"Blake Ramsdell" <blake@brutesquadlabs.com> Mon, 02 June 2003 20:03 UTC

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From: Blake Ramsdell <blake@brutesquadlabs.com>
To: "'Jacoby, Jeffrey'" <jjacoby@rsasecurity.com>, ietf-smime@imc.org
Subject: RE: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-smime-aes-alg-07.txt
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 12:22:57 -0700
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ietf-smime@mail.imc.org 
> [mailto:owner-ietf-smime@mail.imc.org] On Behalf Of Jacoby, Jeffrey
> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 7:30 AM
> To: 'ietf-smime@imc.org'
> Subject: Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-smime-aes-alg-07.txt
> 
> 2. In section 1 Overview, the Distinguished Encoding Rules 
>    reference (DER) is given as X.509-88.  Was X.209-88 meant instead?

My understanding is that if you refer to "old school" DER (that is, a
pre-X.690 reference), you need to refer to the X.509 specification (DER
was not defined in X.209, only BER).

Blake