Subject: RE: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-smime-hmac-key-wrap-00.txt

From: [email-masked] (Peter Gutmann)
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 14:46:45 +1200 (NZST)

"Housley, Russ" <[email-masked]> writes:

>Once the key is unwrapped, we want the recipient to know that it is
>appropriate for use with the intended algorithm.

Why is this needed for KEK when it's never been needed before for any other key
transport type?  Like Jim, I can't see what the point of this is...

Peter.