Exactly. That will help us operate in the hybrid (No S/MIME, PKI S/MIME, 
Plasma) world we're destined to be in for a long time.

Scott Fitch
Cyber Architect
[email protected]

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Schaad [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 9:50 PM
To: Fitch, Scott C; [email protected]
Subject: EXTERNAL: RE: [plasma] S/MIME Capabilities

Just to be clear, you are suggesting that an attribute defined by which a 
sender says "I understand Plasma" just like there is one which says I 
understand inner binary.  Recipients could then store this attribute as part of 
the senders capabilities.  

This is totally trivial and yes we should do it.  I assume that this would just 
be a "binary" value - I do or do not support it.  If a new version of Plasma 
ever comes into existence then a new attribute with a different OID value would 
be created.  There is no need to talk about algorithms or advance vs basic here.

Jim


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> Behalf Of Fitch, Scott C
> Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 12:00 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [plasma] S/MIME Capabilities
> 
> Section 5.2.1 notes the backwards compatibility requirement with 
> existing S/MIME where a sender can create recipient info structures 
> for recipients
it
> can discover keys for.
> 
> Should there be an equivalent mechanism to indicate a sender's support 
> for plasma, similar to the way that S/MIME indicates current capabilities?
This
> could be helpful, particularly when sending messages with Advanced
Policies.
> 
>       -Scott
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