| Internet-Draft | Cryptographic Message System (CMS) Content Types for Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) | December 2019 |
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Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) is becoming a widely used method of doing content encoding. Cryptographic Message System (CMS) is still a widely used method of doing message-based security. This document defines a set of content types for CMS that hold CBOR content.¶
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Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) [CBOR] is a compact self-describing binary encoding formation that is starting to be used in many different applications. One of the primary uses of CBOR is in the Internet of Things where the constrained nature means that having minimal size of encodings becomes very important. The use of the Cryptographic Message System (CMS) [CMS] is still one of the most common method for providing message-based security, although in many cases the CBOR Object Signing and Encryption (COSE) [COSE] message-based security system is starting to be used. Given that CBOR is going to be transported using CMS, it makes sense to define CMS content types for the purpose of denoting that the embedded content is CBOR. This document defines two new content types: CBOR Content Type and CBOR Sequence Content Type [CBOR-SEQ].¶
[CBOR] defines an encoded CBOR item. This section defines a new content type for wrapping an encoded CBOR item in a CMS object.¶
The following object identifier identifies the CBOR content type:¶
id-ct-cbor OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { iso(1) member-body(2) usa(840)
rsadsi(113549) pkcs(1) pkcs9(9) smime(16) ct(1) TBD1 }
¶
The CBOR content type is intended to refer to a single object encoded using the CBOR encoding format [CBOR]. Nothing is stated about the specific CBOR object that is included. CBOR can always be decoded to a tree as the encoding is self descriptive.¶
The CBOR content type is intended to be encapsulated in the signed data and auth-enveloped data, but can be included in any CMS wrapper. It cannot be predicted if the compressed CMS encapsulation will provide compression as the content may be binary rather than text.¶
[RFC7193] defined an optional parameter "innerContent" to allow for identification of what the inner content is for an application/cms media type. This document defines the string "cbor" as a new value that can be placed here when a CBOR content type is used.¶
[CBOR-SEQ] defines a CBOR Sequence as a concatenation of zero or more CBOR objects. This section defines a new content type for wrapping a CBOR Sequence in a CMS object.¶
The following object identifier identifies the CBOR Sequence content type:¶
id-ct-cborSequence OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { iso(1) member-body(2)
usa(840) rsadsi(113549) pkcs(1) pkcs9(9) smime(16) ct(1)
TBD2 }
¶
The CBOR Sequence content type is intended to refer to a sequence of objects encoded using the CBOR encoding format. The objects are concatenated without any markers delimiting the individual CBOR objects. Nothing is stated about the specific CBOR objects that are included. CBOR can always be decoded to a tree as the encoding is self descriptive.¶
The CBOR Sequence content type is intended to be encapsulated in the signed data and auth-enveloped data, but can be included in any CMS wrapper. It cannot be predicted if the compressed CMS encapsulation will provide compression as the content may be binary rather than text.¶
[RFC7193] defined an optional parameter "innerContent" to allow for identification of what the inner content is for an application/cms media type. This document defines the string "cborSequence" as a new value that can be placed here when a CBOR Sequence content type is used.¶
CborContentTypes { iso(1) member-body(2) usa(840)
rsadsi(113549) pkcs(1) pkcs9(9) smime(16) modules(0)
id-mod-cbor-2019(TBD3) }
DEFINITIONS EXPLICIT TAGS ::=
BEGIN
IMPORTS
CONTENT-TYPE
FROM CryptographicMessageSyntax-2010
{ iso(1) member-body(2) us(840) rsadsi(113549)
pkcs(1) pkcs-9(9) smime(16) modules(0) id-mod-cms-2009(58) }
;
id-ct-cbor OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { iso(1) member-body(2)
us(840) rsadsi(113549) pkcs(1) pkcs9(9) smime(16) ct(1)
TBD1 }
id-ct-cborSequence OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { iso(1) member-body(2)
us(840) rsadsi(113549) pkcs(1) pkcs9(9) smime(16) ct(1)
TBD2 }
-- Content is encoded directly and does not have any ASN.1
-- structure
ct-Cbor CONTENT-TYPE ::= { IDENTIFIED BY id-ct-cbor }
-- Content is encoded directly and does not have any ASN.1
-- structure
ct-CborSequence CONTENT-TYPE ::= {
IDENTIFIED BY id-ct-cborSequence
}
END
¶
In the "SMI Security for S/MIME Module Identifier" registry, create a new entry to point to this document.¶
| Decimal | Description | References |
| TBD3 | id-mod-cbor-2019 | [[This Document]] |
In the "SMI Security for S/MIME Content Types" registry, add two new entries for id-ct-cbor and id-ct-cborSequence that point to this document.¶
| Decimal | Description | References |
| TBD1 | id-ct-cbor | [[This Document]] |
| TBD2 | id-ct-cborSequence | [[This Document]] |
In the table "CMS Inner Content Types" add two new entries:¶
| Name | Object Identifier | Reference |
| cbor | 1.2.840.113549.1.9.16.1.TBD1 | [[This Document]] |
| cborSequence | 1.2.840.113549.1.9.16.1.TBD2 | [[This Document]] |
This document only provides identification for content types, it does not introduce any new security issues by itself. The new content types mean that id-data does not need to be used to identify these content types and thus can reduce confusion.¶