Use of the SLH-DSA Signature Algorithm in the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)
draft-ietf-lamps-cms-sphincs-plus-19

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From: The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org>
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Subject: Protocol Action: 'Use of the SLH-DSA Signature Algorithm in the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-lamps-cms-sphincs-plus-19.txt)

The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Use of the SLH-DSA Signature Algorithm in the Cryptographic Message
   Syntax (CMS)'
  (draft-ietf-lamps-cms-sphincs-plus-19.txt) as Proposed Standard

This document is the product of the Limited Additional Mechanisms for PKIX
and SMIME Working Group.

The IESG contact persons are Paul Wouters and Deb Cooley.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-lamps-cms-sphincs-plus/

Ballot Text

Technical Summary

   SLH-DSA is a stateless hash-based signature scheme.  This document
   specifies the conventions for using the SLH-DSA signature algorithm
   with the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS).  In addition, the
   algorithm identifier and public key syntax are provided.

Working Group Summary

   CMS is extensively used in S/MIME and other use cases, for example financial
   services messages.There was extensive review and broad agreement within the 
   working group.


Document Quality

   The ASN.1 module was run through an ASN checker.


Personnel

   The Document Shepherd for this document is Tim Hollebeek. The
   Responsible Area Director is Deb Cooley.

RFC Editor Note