Subject: Protocol Action: Password-based Encryption for S/MIME to Proposed Standard

From: The IESG <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 12:25:27 -0500

The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft 'Password-based Encryption for
S/MIME' <draft-ietf-smime-password-06.txt> as a Proposed Standard.
This document is the product of the S/MIME Mail Security Working
Group.  The IESG contact persons are Jeffrey Schiller and Marcus
Leech.

Technical Summary
 
  This protocol describes a password-based content encryption mechanism
  for CMS.  It is an extension to RFC2630.

Working Group Summary

  There was working group concensus on this protocol.  One minor comment
  was received during last call, which resulted in a minor change to
  the document.

Protocol Quality

  This document was reviewed by Marcus Leech.