Subject: RE: RSA Signature OIDs

From: "Pawling, John" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 13:39:57 -0400

Russ,

I agree that the cmsalg proposed change would increase the consistency of
the use of the md5WithRSAEncryption, sha1WithRSAEncryption, and
rsaEncryption OIDs in PKIX X.509 certificates and CMS signedData content
types.  However, I don't believe that the increase in consistency would be
worth breaking backwards compatibility with legacy CMS implementations.
Before we make a decision, I believe that we need further input from the
various implementers so that we know the extent to which this change would
break backwards compatibility with legacy CMS implementations.

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John Pawling, [email-masked]
Getronics Government Solutions, LLC
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