PGP Enhanced Messaging (PEM)

Adam Shostack adam at bwh.harvard.edu
Tue Nov 29 09:27:41 PST 1994


You wrote:

| PGP Enhanced Messaging (PEM) should not be confused with the Privacy
| Enhanced Mail standard (PEM).  Information on integrating PEM into
| your GNU Emacs environment is included at the end of this file.

	There is enough FUD in the crypto buisness already.  Why
enhance it by using another name, already in use, that refers to a
similar*, but competing set of standards?

Adam



* By similar, I mean that both PEM's are cryptographic solutions for
privacy & authentication, rather than one being a routing protocol,
the other a security package.


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