The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Use of the SLH-DSA Signature Algorithm in the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)' (draft-ietf-lamps-cms-sphincs-plus-19.txt) as Proposed Standard
This document is the product of the Limited Additional Mechanisms for PKIX and SMIME Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Paul Wouters and Deb Cooley. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-lamps-cms-sphincs-plus/ Technical Summary SLH-DSA is a stateless hash-based signature scheme. This document specifies the conventions for using the SLH-DSA signature algorithm with the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS). In addition, the algorithm identifier and public key syntax are provided. Working Group Summary CMS is extensively used in S/MIME and other use cases, for example financial services messages.There was extensive review and broad agreement within the working group. Document Quality The ASN.1 module was run through an ASN checker. Personnel The Document Shepherd for this document is Tim Hollebeek. The Responsible Area Director is Deb Cooley. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
