[Smcwg-public] Relevant S/MIME standards

Ben Wilson bwilson at mozilla.com
Wed Aug 5 10:53:34 MST 2020


 I recall that Direct Trust uses an SMIME-type certificate.
Maybe there is helpful information here:
https://www.directtrust.org/resources/compliance-and-key-policies#compliance
Ben

On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 12:50 AM Wiedenhorst, Matthias via Smcwg-public <
smcwg-public at cabforum.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
>
> the requirements mentioned by Adriano are derived from the technical
> specification BSI-TR-03116-4 of the German BSI (Federal Office for
> Information Security).
>
>
> https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/BSI/Publikationen/TechnischeRichtlinien/TR03116/BSI-TR-03116-4.html
>
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>
> In section 3 of that document, cryptographic requirements are specified
> for S/MIME that should be considered.
>
>
>
> Unfortunately there seems to be no English translation available. The
> title translates to “Cryptographic requirements for projects of the federal
> government”. However, usage of the document is not strictly limited to the
> federal government but is also applied to various non-governmental (or at
> least not directly governmental J) projects like the energy sector
> mentioned by Adriano.
>
>
>
> Best regards
>
> Matthias
>
>
>
> *Von:* Smcwg-public <smcwg-public-bounces at cabforum.org> *Im Auftrag von *Adriano
> Santoni via Smcwg-public
> *Gesendet:* Dienstag, 4. August 2020 08:00
> *An:* smcwg-public at cabforum.org
> *Betreff:* Re: [Smcwg-public] Relevant S/MIME standards
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
> there is a German standard that I think we should consider.
>
> As of January 1, 2019, all operators in the German energy sector (the
> energy and water industry market) are required to use the RSASSA-PSS
> algorithm for signing S/MIME-based communications with market participants,
> and the S/MIME certificates themselves must be signed with RSASSA-PSS.
>
> The relevant regulation can be found here, although in German only (I
> could not find an English translation):
>
>
> https://www.edi-energy.de/index.php?id=38&tx_bdew_bdew%5Buid%5D=70&tx_bdew_bdew%5Baction%5D=download&tx_bdew_bdew%5Bcontroller%5D=Dokument&cHash=e0c45c5f51c7224743339c116feef613
>
> Regards
>
> Adriano
>
>
>
> Il 03/08/2020 18:44, Stephen Davidson via Smcwg-public ha scritto:
>
> Hello all:
>
>
>
> SMCWG members are encouraged to submit relevant standards for S/MIME
> certificates for the group’s consideration via the public listserv.  Here
> are two important ones:
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>
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>    1. Mozilla Root Store Policy.  Particularly Section 2.2 (2) for
>    validation of email control and Section 6.2 for S/MIME revocation events.
>    https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/policies/security-group/certs/policy/
>    2. Gmail’s acceptable S/MIME certificate profiles for end entity
>    certs, intermediate CAs, and root CAs:
>    https://support.google.com/a/answer/7300887?hl=en&ref_topic=9061730
>
>
>
> We are interested to know if similar S/MIME certificate profiles exist in
> government or industry standards.
>
>
>
> Regards, Stephen
>
>
>
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