Securing Internet mail at the MTA level

[Dave Crocker]

At 8:29 AM -0700 8/20/96, C Matthew Curtin wrote:
>    2. Waiting for a cryptographic transport layer network protocol
>       (such as what is being proposed in draft-ietf-tls-ssh-00),
>       allowing SMTP to remain untouched, and only requiring MTAs to
>       add support for the new network protocol.
>
>I like the second approach better, because it allows more problems to
>be solved with one move, and it would be easier to add crypto

	This presumes that everyone uses Internet protocols for transport.

	That is a marginal assumption, in today's world.

	Probably ok for long term, though.

d/

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