Re: Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-smime-examples-09.txt

Blake Ramsdell wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected]
> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> > Jeff Jacoby
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 10:25 AM
> > To: Paul Hoffman / IMC
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-smime-examples-09.txt
> >
> > Also, I notice there is only one message which is indefinite-length
> > encoded.  Will there be more examples with indefinte-length enodings?
> 
> What cases are you concerned about?  Total length of an indefininte
> length block > 64K?
> 
> Blake

It could be that I'm confusing myself, or I'm just making things
unnecessarily complicated, but I was thinking of a "streaming"
case.  

By this I mean:
 - Lot's of data is to be signed and enveloped.  The data is
   available only a little bit at a time, nor do I know how much
   there ultimately will be.
 - I run the data through my CMS signing routines, which 
   most likely produce indefinite-length encodings (unless I want
   to buffer everything), then...
 - run that (indefinite-length) contentInfo through my enveloping
   routines.

Or perhaps vice-versa (enveloping then signing).

I'm just interested in making sure I'm encrypting (or signing) the
correct octets of the incoming indefinite-length message.

Or my coffee fix isn't working and I'm just generally confused about
things and there's nothing really to worry about. :)

Jeff