RE: message with a mlExpansionHistory attribute

All,

Getronics Government Solutions generated the section 11.5 sample message
included in the "Examples of S/MIME Messages" I-D.  We agree that there
should not be a trailing zero present in the GeneralizedTime value as per
the X.690 DER rules.  We will generate a new message with a corrected
GeneralizedTime value for inclusion in the next version of the Examples I-D.

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John Pawling, [email protected]
Getronics Government Solutions, LLC
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-----Original Message-----
From: Vamsi Motukuru [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 4:14 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: message with a mlExpansionHistory attribute


Hi,

	In the ESS example 11.5 which is a message with the
mlExpansionHistory 
attribute,
	the expansionTime field in the ASN1 type MLData  contains a
GeneralizedTime
	value which appears to be incorrect.

	Here is a portion of example 11.5.

   749 30  234:                 SEQUENCE {
   752 30  231:                   SEQUENCE {
   755 04    7:                     OCTET STRING
              :                   35 37 33 38 32 39 39
   764 18   16:                     GeneralizedTime '199903111044330Z'
   782 A1  201:                     [1] {
   785 30  198:                       SEQUENCE {
   788 A4   97:                         [4] {
	
	The GeneralizedTime value contains a "0" after the seconds
value(33). I 
think this is not allowed in an
	ASN.1 GeneralizedTime but I could be wrong.


         Thanks,

          -- Vamsi
	<[email protected]>