use PGP for http encryption instead!

Adam Shostack adam at bwh.harvard.edu
Fri Aug 18 08:04:58 PDT 1995


| "George P. Magiros" writes:
| > i don't mean to be extremely brash, but couldn't one use PGP to provide
| > encrypted communication with the web.
| 
| You ought to read up on S-HTTP, the expert on said protocol being our
| very own Eric Rescorla...

	PGP support was taken out of the latest SHTTP draft,
apparently because no one had implemented it.  Should someone build a
libSHTTP with PGP support, I suspect it would get back into the spec.

Adam


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