29 Jun 2002 01:11
Comments on new examples from Getronics
Blake Ramsdell <blake <at> brutesquadlabs.com>
2002-06-28 23:11:03 GMT
2002-06-28 23:11:03 GMT
John, thank you for providing the revised examples. I have some comments:
In my testing, example 5.6 appears to have switched the order of the
SignerInfos. I do not have access to the examples draft, so I don't know
what the spirit of this test was. It is most likely not an issue.
I have the following comments about 5.8.eml and 5.9.eml. Most of them are
MIME formatting issues, and will not affect the CMS portion of the messages.
* Both files are missing the MIME-Version header. I believe that the spirit
of these files is that they are valid MIME messages, and thus require this
header.
* The timezone for 5.9 doesn't match the comment (-0300 and Eastern Standard
Time). This is not required for correct operation, however, and is not
critical to fix.
* The Content-Type header for 5.9 is not correct:
Content-Type: Application/pkcs7-mime;name=smime.p7m;filename=smime.p7m;
micalg=SHA-1;
protocol=application/pkcs7-signature
I believe it should be replaced with:
Content-Type: application/pkcs7-mime;name=smime.p7m
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=smime.p7m
Which fixes a few issues, including the inclusion of the micalg and protocol
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