Subject: Protocol Action: 'Use of the Camellia Encryption Algorithm in CMS' to Proposed Standard

From: The IESG <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 17:14:58 -0400

The IESG has approved following document:

- 'Use of the Camellia Encryption Algorithm in CMS '
   <draft-ietf-smime-camellia-05.txt> as a Proposed Standard

This document is the product of the S/MIME Mail Security Working Group. 

The IESG contact persons are Russ Housley and Steve Bellovin.

Technical Summary

    This document specifies the conventions for using the Camellia
    encryption algorithm for encryption with the Cryptographic Message
    Syntax (CMS).

Working Group Summary

    The Working Group came to consensus on this document.

Protocol Quality

    This document was reviewed by Russell Housley for the IESG.

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