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Perry E. Metzger pmetzger at shearson.com
Tue Oct 13 13:25:13 PDT 1992


>From: gnu at cygnus.com

>We have standards already for a fully encrypted email system.  It's
>called PEM, Privacy Enhanced Mail.  It'd be completely senseless to come
>up with a different format at this point, as PEM is on the verge of
>deployment.

One might have a good reason to follow most of PEMs formatting
standards and the like; I'd fully agree its foolish in the extreme to
do otherwise. However, some of us don't like PEMs hierarchical key
authentication concepts.

Perry








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