All,

For Encryption the suggestion has been made that it might be better to use the algorithm identifier from PKCS than the Security identifier that we just voted on in CAP.  It is a variable length self describing format from the Public Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS).

ASN.1 AlgorithmIdentifier from PKCS  (OID's)

ASN.1 - Abstract Syntax Notation One
OID - Object Identifier

Any thoughts?  If it does make better sense a change would have to be made very rapidly so we don't get implementations and can remove what we already put in.

Thanks,

Kevin D. Butt
SCSI & Fibre Channel Architect, Tape Firmware
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