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Re: MOSS [IETF privacy-enhanced mail, modified for MIME] now available
Rich Salz writes:
| >From [email protected] Wed Sep 13 19:27:35 1995
| Message-Id: <[email protected]>
| Reply-To: James M Galvin <[email protected]>
| To: "MOSS.Announce.List":;, [email protected]
| Subject: ANNOUNCE: TIS/MOSS Version 7.1
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| Q: How does MOSS compare to PGP and PEM?
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| PGP can provide the same services but since it is not integrated with
| MIME the interpretation of the protected content is necessarily user
| controlled. Note, however, that MIME can carry a PGP object.
Just wondering - is anyone working on a profile for PGP under MOSS
and/or the multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted body parts ?
Whether or not they are, it would be useful to have a de-facto
standard for the use of PGP with current MIME implementations. I
recall there was a draft RFC by Nathaniel Borenstein which dealt
with this, but it was withdrawn to leave the way clear for MOSS ?
Why bother ? Well, there are lots of mailers out there with "some"
MIME support - enough for launching a helper application to read
and perhaps compose (say) application/pgp, but not nearly enough to
handle MOSS. I'm thinking about commercial offerings for the likes
of MacOS, DOS, and Windows in particular. It seems like a really
neat hack to use the MIME support to bring PGP in by stealth, but
perhaps most of the implementations Out There are too crippled ?
Over to you... :-)
Martin