application/pkcs8

Bjoern Hoehrmann derhoermi at gmx.net
Wed Apr 21 12:37:48 CEST 2010


* Sean Turner wrote:
>Here's the template (I changed the POC from Cullen to me):
>
>  To: ietf-types at iana.org
>
>      Subject: Registration of media type application/pkcs8

These lines are not supposed to be in the RFC.

>       Type name: application
>
>       Subtype name: pkcs8
>
>       Required parameters: None
>
>       Optional parameters: None
>
>       Encoding considerations: binary
>
>       Security considerations: Carries a cryptographic private key

This should probably reference the Security considerations section.

>       Interoperability considerations:
>
>            The PKCS#8 object inside this MIME type MUST be DER-encoded
>            PrivateKeyInfo.
>
>       Published specification: --THIS SPECIFICATION--
>
>    /** RFC EDITOR: Replace "--THIS SPECIFICATION--" with the RFC #
>    assigned to this document.  **/
>
>       Applications which use this media type:
>
>         Any MIME-compliant transport

See my comment on the application/pkcs10 template.
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