Re: eContentType for detached signatures
Paul Hoffman <[email protected]> Fri, 2 May 2014 08:11:29 -0700
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On May 2, 2014, at 8:01 AM, Russ Housley <[email protected]> wrote: > Paul: > >>> Your last point is incorrect. There have been many I-D signatures that are correct using id-ct-asciiTextWithCRLF. There are software bugs, and they are being worked, but some of the signatures are valid. >> >> Are you saying there will be significant negative operational impact of replacing those signatures with new ones? Given the "some" in that last sentence, I'm not sure I can imagine the problems. > > New signatures need to be generated for the I-D where there was a canonicalization problem. The ones that did not have a canonicalization problem do not need new signatures. Quite true. We could have two different content types on the signatures, the old and the new. That seems silly, though, if no one is relying on the old signatures. --Paul Hoffman _______________________________________________ smime mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/smime