Preventing the Million Message Attack on Cryptographic Message Syntax
draft-ietf-smime-pkcs1-01

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Author Eric Rescorla
Last updated 2020-01-21 (Latest revision 2001-11-29)
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draft-ietf-smime-pkcs1-01 
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        RFC 3218

        Title:      Preventing the Million Message Attack on 
                    Cryptographic Message Syntax
        Author(s):  E. Rescorla
        Status:     Informational
        Date:       January 2002
        Mailbox:    ekr@rtfm.com
        Pages:      7
        Characters: 16047
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:  None

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-smime-pkcs1-01.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3218.txt

This memo describes a strategy for resisting the Million Message
Attack.

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