PKCS-7 Protocol

This Protocol provides an agreement to express secured messages in PKCS-7 syntax. Implementation might map from the PKCS-7 binary body encoding to a production suitable for further processing by Security/* extensions.

PKCS elements imply two actions: repacking as a header or producing a wrapped HTTP message.

The PKCS-7 parser also cross-codes data from ASN.1 into the simplified base64 used in Security/*.

It is an open question whether a PKCS-7 repackager can be made for operating in the opposite direction.

It is unclear what else is needed to support SHTTP.

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PKCS-7 Protocol was converted on Tue Oct 03 21:15:55 EDT 1995 by the eText Engine, version 5, release 0.96