Re: [Endymail] Another view of the problem and what the IETF could do

Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> Wed, 03 September 2014 11:11 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Endymail] Another view of the problem and what the IETF could do
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On Wed,  3 Sep 2014 12:53, stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie said:
> On 03/09/14 08:22, Werner Koch wrote:

> I note the RFC [1] is now historic and as far as I know

Oops my fault.  For the last 15 or so years I used the term MOSS for
1847 "Security Multiparts for MIME" in my mails, talks, and slides.
That was clearly wrong.  I entirely forgot that MOSS (1848) was an
protocol based on 1847.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner


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