Re: [Endymail] Improvements to S/MIME

Dave Crocker <dcrocker@gmail.com> Fri, 12 September 2014 18:30 UTC

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On 9/12/2014 10:48 AM, Wei Chuang wrote:
> I would like to propse that endymail list seems like a good place to
> compile future IETF work for improving S/MIME (RFC5751).


Let me suggest that there is a task that needs to come before that.  The
task is gaining agreement on the nature of the operation of end2end
encryption and how it might be different from previous operations.

Think of it as a meta-gap analysis, since it would not be specific to
s/mime.

d/

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