Evaluation: draft-ietf-smime-aes-alg - Use of the AES Encryption Algorithm in CMS to Proposed Standard

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Last Call to expire on: 2003-2-25

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Harald Alvestrand   [   ]     [   ]       [   ]      [   ] 
Steve Bellovin      [ X ]     [   ]       [   ]      [   ] 
Randy Bush          [   ]     [   ]       [   ]      [   ] 
Bill Fenner         [   ]     [   ]       [   ]      [   ] 
Ned Freed           [   ]     [   ]       [   ]      [   ] 
Ted Hardie          [   ]     [   ]       [   ]      [   ] 
Russ Housley        [   ]     [   ]       [   ]      [   ] 
Allison Mankin      [   ]     [   ]       [   ]      [   ] 
Thomas Narten       [   ]     [   ]       [   ]      [   ] 
Erik Nordmark       [   ]     [   ]       [   ]      [   ]
Jon Peterson        [   ]     [   ]       [   ]      [   ] 
Bert Wijnen         [   ]     [   ]       [   ]      [   ]
Alex Zinin          [   ]     [   ]       [   ]      [   ] 


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 * Indicate reason if 'Discuss'.
 
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Subject: Protocol Action: Use of the AES Encryption Algorithm in CMS 
	   to Proposed Standard
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 The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft 'Use of the AES Encryption 
 Algorithm in CMS' <draft-ietf-smime-aes-alg-06.txt> as a Proposed 
 Standard. This document is the product of the S/MIME Mail Security 
 Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Steven Bellovin and
 Russ Housley.
   
   
 Technical Summary
   
   This specification describes how to use the Advanced Encryption
   Standard (AES) with the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS).
   It gives the ASN.1 necessary when AES is used with each
   recipient's public RSA key, with a Diffie-Hellman key exchange,
   with a previously distributed symmetric key, and with a
   key derived from a password.
   
 Working Group Summary
   
   There was no significant disagreement.
   
 Protocol Quality
   
   This specification was reviewed for the IESG by Steve Bellovin.