| The interesting thing here is a plan to use digital signatures on | controls and scripts as a means of authentication. There was a press release on this. The PR index on http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/pr.htm points to a few Internet-related announcements that were made on 12/7. A brief quote on these signatures: "Microsoft plans to propose the Internet digital signature specifications to the W3C and the IETF as an open Internet standard. The technology will be an open, proposed specification available to the entire Internet community. In addition, as part of the Open Process Design Review, Microsoft will host a digital signature design preview in January to solicit feedback from the Internet community." This week there was also another workshop for ~150 ISVs, and these signatures were one of the topics. The event was not under any NDA, so you should start seeing feedback once folks get home and they catch up with mail (at least two were on Cypherpunks). The folks putting on the event have put lots of docs on the "Sweeper" SDK, on the below-referenced web site. Honestly, I'm not sure if all the stuff from the event this week is up there; if not now, most of it will get added in the next week or so. | Servers and some clients will support end-to-end encryption. No details... I believe SSL in current versions of the web browser and server, PCT around the corner (perhaps PCT is earlier than I'm thinking). | Maybe I'll test the search capabilities of the MS Web site later tonight. The clearinghouse for internet developer info (opened 12/7): http://www.microsoft.com/intdev/ It contains info on various VB Script, OLE Control, etc, as they refer to some of our Internet solutions. A page related to this press briefing (I presume also opened 12/7): http://www.microsoft.com/internet/ Hope this helps, Lee Fisher (wondering if I really should've de-lurked)