5.4.Protocols and Standards to be used for encryption mechanism: s/MIME and related packagesThe open standard s/MIME as extension to de facto e-mail standard SMTP will be deployed to encrypt messages containing DNA profile information. The protocol s/MIME (V3) allows signed receipts, security labels, and secure mailing lists and is layered on Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS), an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) specification for cryptographic protected messages. It can be used to digitally sign, digest, authenticate or encrypt any form of digitaldata.The underlying certificate used by the s/MIME mechanism has to be in compliance with X.509 standard. In order to ensure common standards and procedures with other Prüm applications, the processing rules for s/MIME encryption operations or to be applied under various Commercial Product of the Shelves (COTS) environments, are as follows:
–the sequence of the operations is: first encryption and then signing,
–the encryption algorithm AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with 256 bit key length and RSA with 1024 bit key length shall be applied for symmetric and asymmetric encryption respectively,
–the hash algorithm SHA-1 shall be applied.
s/MIME functionality is built into the vast majority of modern e-mail software packages including Outlook, Mozilla Mail aswell as Netscape Communicator 4.x and inter-operates among all major e-mail software packages.Because of s/MIME's easy integration into national IT infrastructure at all States' sites, it is selected as a viable mechanism to implement the communication security level. For achieving the goal 'Proof of Concept'in a more efficient way and reducing costs the open standard JavaMail API is however chosen for prototyping DNA data exchange. JavaMail API provides simple encryption and decryption of e-mails using s/MIME and/or OpenPGP. The intent is to provide a single, easy-to-use API for e-mail clients that want to send and receive encrypted e-mail in either of the two most popular e-mail encryption formats. Therefore any state-of-the-art implementations to JavaMail API will suffice for the requirements set by Title II [Exchanges of DNA, Fingerprints and vehicle registration data] of Part Three, such as the product of Bouncy Castle JCE (Java Cryptographic Extension), which will be used to implement s/MIME for prototyping DNA data exchange among all States.
Curiously, the phrase "JavaMail API provides simple encryption and decryption of e-mails using s/MIME and/or OpenPGP." appears to be taken directly from this[1] SourceForge page from 2004
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5.4.Protocols and Standards to be used for encryption mechanism: s/MIME and related packagesThe open standard s/MIME as extension to de facto e-mail standard SMTP will be deployed to encrypt messages containing DNA profile information. The protocol s/MIME (V3) allows signed receipts, security labels, and secure mailing lists and is layered on Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS), an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) specification for cryptographic protected messages. It can be used to digitally sign, digest, authenticate or encrypt any form of digitaldata.The underlying certificate used by the s/MIME mechanism has to be in compliance with X.509 standard. In order to ensure common standards and procedures with other Prüm applications, the processing rules for s/MIME encryption operations or to be applied under various Commercial Product of the Shelves (COTS) environments, are as follows:
–the sequence of the operations is: first encryption and then signing,
–the encryption algorithm AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with 256 bit key length and RSA with 1024 bit key length shall be applied for symmetric and asymmetric encryption respectively,
–the hash algorithm SHA-1 shall be applied.
s/MIME functionality is built into the vast majority of modern e-mail software packages including Outlook, Mozilla Mail aswell as Netscape Communicator 4.x and inter-operates among all major e-mail software packages.Because of s/MIME's easy integration into national IT infrastructure at all States' sites, it is selected as a viable mechanism to implement the communication security level. For achieving the goal 'Proof of Concept'in a more efficient way and reducing costs the open standard JavaMail API is however chosen for prototyping DNA data exchange. JavaMail API provides simple encryption and decryption of e-mails using s/MIME and/or OpenPGP. The intent is to provide a single, easy-to-use API for e-mail clients that want to send and receive encrypted e-mail in either of the two most popular e-mail encryption formats. Therefore any state-of-the-art implementations to JavaMail API will suffice for the requirements set by Title II [Exchanges of DNA, Fingerprints and vehicle registration data] of Part Three, such as the product of Bouncy Castle JCE (Java Cryptographic Extension), which will be used to implement s/MIME for prototyping DNA data exchange among all States.
Curiously, the phrase "JavaMail API provides simple encryption and decryption of e-mails using s/MIME and/or OpenPGP." appears to be taken directly from this[1] SourceForge page from 2004
[1]http://javamail-crypto.sourceforge.net/