Re: PEM, X.500 - discussion

Blake Ramsdell <blaker@craswell.com> Tue, 21 January 1997 20:30 UTC

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Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 12:17:51 -0800
To: Tim Dean <dean@hydra.dra.hmg.gb>, pgp-mime@purpletape.cs.uchicago.edu, smime-dev@rsa.com, pem-dev@tis.com
From: Blake Ramsdell <blaker@craswell.com>
Subject: Re: PEM, X.500 - discussion
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At 10:17 AM 1/21/97 +0000, Tim Dean wrote:
>Somewhere in the recesses of my memory I seem to recall reading a
>paper which reported on a meeting discussing amongst other things the
>reasons why Privacy Enhanced Mail has not been widely taken up on the
>Internet.  I seem to recall it also talked about X.500, as well as
>other security issues.  I thought it was an RFC but can't seem to
>find it now.

There was a Resolving Security workshop that was put on by the Internet
Mail Consortium.  Check out http://www.imc.org/workshop/

Raph Levien also did a brief comparison of the different security protocols
at http://www.c2.net/~raph/comparison.html that he released after the
workshop.

Hope this helps...

Blake

PEM, X.500 - discussion Tim Dean
Re: PEM, X.500 - discussion Blake Ramsdell