At 8:29 AM -0700 8/20/96, C Matthew Curtin wrote:
2. Waiting for a cryptographic transport layer network protocol (such as what is being proposed in draft-ietf-tls-ssh-00), allowing SMTP to remain untouched, and only requiring MTAs to add support for the new network protocol.
I like the second approach better, because it allows more problems to be solved with one move, and it would be easier to add crypto
This presumes that everyone uses Internet protocols for transport. That is a marginal assumption, in today's world. Probably ok for long term, though. d/ -------------------- Dave Crocker +1 408 246 8253 Brandenburg Consulting fax: +1 408 249 6205 675 Spruce Dr. dcrocker@brandenburg.com Sunnyvale CA 94086 USA http://www.brandenburg.com Internet Mail Consortium http://www.imc.org, info@imc.org