At 11:27 7/24/95, Timothy C. May wrote:

At 12:54 PM 7/23/95, Bob Snyder wrote:

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tcmay@sensemedia.net said:

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With regard to SSL and Netscape not being open to outside developers, several leading e-mail outfits, including Qualcomm, Netscape, Frontier, etc., are working on an interoperable secure e-mail standard called "Secure/MIME," or "S/MIME."

Do you have sources for this information? MOSS is out there at least as a Internet Draft, and possibly further along, and Steve Dorner of Qualcomm, the original author of Eudora, is pretty active in the MIME community and I doubt he would support a second MIME type to do the same thing...

Some of you have expressed skepticism about the mention of "S/MIME." [snip]

All MOSS does is designate the MIME Headers/etc to support Encrypting and/or Signing MIME Parts. It says nothing as to how you do the Encoding or create Signature - only how to package the two parts into a MIME format once you have them. Thus S/MIME is/could-be an implementation of MOSS (as would be a MUA that used the MOSS formats to package a PGP signature or Encrypted Message). For those who want to read the docs, just send this message:

To: mailserv@ds.internic.net From: YOUR-ADDRESS-GOES-HERE

ENCODING mime FILE /internet-drafts/draft-ietf-pem-mime-08.txt FILE /internet-drafts/draft-ietf-pem-sigenc-03.txt