RE: [dss] CMS

[Trevor Perrin <trevp@trevp.net>]

At 05:01 PM 4/20/2004 +0100, Nick Pope wrote:
>Trevor,
>
>What I understand was that with some change in the flexibility in verify
>schema it would be possible to use this to support CMS,

I'm not sure it needs any change.  I guess that's still under discussion.


>  and that you and Ed
>were tasked to produce an equivalent to 3.3 / 4.3 to cover basic CMS
>processing.

Okay.



>My understanding is that the requirements document
>  http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dss/download.php/3926/oasis-ds
>s-1.0-requirements-wd-12.pdf
>
>does include requirement to allow creation & verification of CMS signatures.
>
>The details relating to the different forms of CMS which do not relate to
>XML signatures could be sorted in a profile.  I do not think that we need to
>be too rigid about the complete picture being defined in the Core.

Okay.  So we want to flesh out basic CMS support, but we're not necessarily 
putting it "on par" with XML-DSIG.  That makes sense, thanks.

Trevor