SMIME Working Group

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S/MIME Working Group

• Blake Ramsdell, Co-Chair
• March 20, 2006
• IETF 65, Dallas, TX

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Agenda

• Blue sheets, minutes taker, agenda review, check
  for water(Blake Ramsdell) 5 minutes
• Working group status (drafts, milestones) (Blake
  Ramsdell) 10 minutes
• Digest migration / Multiple signatures(Blake
  Ramsdell, Jim Schaad) 30 min
• Voltage IBE update (time permitting)(Blake
  Ramsdell)

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Draft Status

• certcapa SHIPPED! RFC 4262
• gost RFC Editors queue
• symkeydist REF but moving
• KEM Wandering down the lonesome X9.44 highway,
  new draft available
• CaDES Some significant outstanding syntax
  concerns

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Milestones

• CMS, CMS Algorithms, ESS, CERT, MSG to Draft
  Standard
• KEM to Last Call, Proposed Standard

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BIG Proposed Standard Issue

• Certificate interoperability report required for
  CERT, CMS thats PKIX
• CERT required for MSG
• MSG, CERT required for ESS

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KEM Issues

• New editor, so some nits
• References are not all accessible, difficult to
  comment, impossible to publish without this fixed
• Still wandering around in X9.44

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Action Items From IETF 64

• gost to WG last call DONE
• Continued pressure to get CMC released to get
  symkeydist moving again DONE
• Continue discussion about SHA-256 transition IN
  PROGRESS