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From commercenet-request@commerce.NET Sat Jun 11 02:32:46 1994 Date: Sat, 11 Jun 94 01:17:50 PDT From: wtwong@eitech.eit.com (William Tao-Yang Wong) Message-Id: <9406110817.AA22886@eit.COM> To: commercenet@ibs.eit.COM, network-wg@ibs.eit.COM Cc: heathman@commerce.net Subject: Announce: Secure HTTP Draft Specification

A draft specification for Secure HTTP has been released. You may retrieve it via any of the following methods:

WWW: http://www.commerce.net/information/standards/drafts/shttp.txt Email: shttp-info@commerce.net (Automatic response) Anonymous FTP: ftp.commerce.net/pub/standards/drafts/shttp.txt

William

Secure HTTP (S-HTTP) provides secure communication mechanisms between an HTTP client-server pair. Our design intent is to provide a flexi- ble protocol that supports multiple operation modes and cryptographic algorithms and formats through option negotiation between the tran- saction parties. 1.1. Summary of Features Secure HTTP has been designed to enable incorporation of various cryptographic message format standards into Web clients and servers, including, but not limited to, PKCS-7, PEM, and PGP. S-HTTP supports interoperation among a variety of implementations, and is backward compatible with HTTP. ...