RFC 8358 · INFORMATIONAL · 2018

Update to Digital Signatures on Internet-Draft Documents

Overview

RFC 8358, “Update to Digital Signatures on Internet-Draft Documents”, is an Informational document published in March 2018 by R. Housley. It updates RFC 5485. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

RFC 5485 specifies the conventions for digital signatures on Internet-Drafts. The Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) is used to create a detached signature, which is stored in a separate companion file so that no existing utilities are impacted by the addition of the digital signature.

The RFC Editor recently published the first RFC that includes non- ASCII characters in a text file. The conventions specified in RFC 7997 were followed. We assume that non-ASCII characters will soon start appearing in Internet-Drafts as well. This document updates the handling of digital signatures on Internet-Drafts that contain non-ASCII characters in a text file.

This document updates RFC 5485.

Abstract as published in the RFC, via rfc-editor.org.

What “Informational” means

Published for the general information of the community. It does not define an IETF standard and carries no standards-track status.

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This RFC updates
RFC 5485
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