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Re: use PGP for http encryption instead!

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Subject: Re: use PGP for http encryption instead!
From: [email protected] (Adam Shostack)
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 10:58:47 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "Perry E. Metzger" at Aug 17, 95 11:29:09 pm
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| "George P. Magiros" writes:
| > i don't mean to be extremely brash, but couldn't one use PGP to provide
| > encrypted communication with the web.
| 
| You ought to read up on S-HTTP, the expert on said protocol being our
| very own Eric Rescorla...

	PGP support was taken out of the latest SHTTP draft,
apparently because no one had implemented it.  Should someone build a
libSHTTP with PGP support, I suspect it would get back into the spec.

Adam


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- Re: use PGP for http encryption instead!
  - From: "Perry E. Metzger" <[email protected]>

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