Re: RFC: Bring back S/MIME support for IPP Encrypted Jobs and Documents?

"Kennedy, Smith \(Wireless & IPP Standards\) via ipp" <[email protected]>
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Wow, thanks for finding this! I’m sure that enterprises would prefer using S/MIME. We should definitely review this and work to restore S/MIME in TRUSTNOONE if we believe it is appropriate.

Cheers,
Smith
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Smith Kennedy
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On Apr 21, 2021, at 4:28 AM, Michael Sweet via ipp <[email protected]> wrote:

 All,

Somehow we missed this, but the IETF published an update to S/MIME in April of 2019:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8551<https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8551>

Among other things, this update addresses the EFAIL cryptographic vulnerability in S/MIME by adding support for some new cipher suites with Galois/Counter Mode (GCM) instead of the old (insecure) Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) mode.

Using S/MIME bring the advantage that it shares most of the infrastructure that is already in place for TLS, particularly when it comes to trusting a third party. PGP depends on the "web of trust" for this and may not be as attractive to some.

Thoughts?

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Michael Sweet



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