On Thu, Feb 21, 2013, Dave Thompson wrote: > > From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org On Behalf Of Dr. Stephen Henson > > Sent: Wednesday, 20 February, 2013 19:06 > > > > > PKCS#7 and CMS are two similar standards but with a few > > subtle differences. > > Beg to differ. The *first version* of CMS was almost the same > as PKCS#7. But after that no further work was done on PKCS#7 > while numerous new features and extensions were added to CMS, > so today CMS is maybe twice as big as fossilized PKCS#7. >
Yes sorry should've been clearer. What I meant was that (with the exception of a few very rarely used weird cases) PKCS#7 signatures are compatible with CMS. The reverse is not true: CMS offers many new features that are not in PKCS#7. Steve. -- Dr Stephen N. Henson. OpenSSL project core developer. Commercial tech support now available see: http://www.openssl.org ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
