Re: New SMime Capabilities item

[Russ Housley <[e-mail]>]

Jim:

What OID are you using?

Russ


At 07:59 PM 5/11/99 -0700, Jim Schaad (Exchange) wrote:
>Please add the following to the SMimeCapabilities section of the OIDs
>document on IMC.ORG.
>
>sMIMECapabilitiesVersions ::= {sMIMECapabilities 3}
>SMIMECapabilitiesVersions ::= SEQUENCE OF INTEGER
>--     SMime Capabilities Versions holds the sequence of S/MIME V3
>specifications
>--     understood by the client.   Currently the only two items legal values
>are
>--     v2 (S/MIME version 2) and v3 (S/MIME version 3).   If the item is
>missing from a
>--     capabilities list then V2 only should be assumed.
>
>
>The current justification for this is that S/MIME V2 clients will probably
>not understand the CMS encrypted data objects.  Specifically receipient
>infos other than key transport and may not be able to decrypt the message at
>all if other key managment algorithms are used in the message.
>
>jim
>