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Confined Spaces
Cryptographic message syntax is used to digitally sign, digest, authenticate, or encrypt arbitrary message content.
The American National Standard (ANS) ANSI X9.73-2017, Cryptographic Message Syntax-ASN.1 and XML, specifies a cryptographic syntax scheme that can be used to protect financial transactions, files, and other messages from unauthorized disclosure and modification. The cryptographic syntax scheme is based on an abstract cryptographic message syntax (CMS) schema whose concrete values can be represented using either a compact, efficient, binary encoding, or as a flexible, human-readable, XML markup format.
ANSI Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) X9 published the standard, a revision of the 2010 edition.