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In article <9208272105.AA12700@news.cis.ohio-state.edu> Marc.Ringuette@daisy.learning.cs.cmu.edu writes:
>I presume we all agree that we should move towards some form of secure
>email and some means of exchanging public keys.  There are a number of
>other cryptographic services we could ask for.  I presume we do NOT all
>agree on exactly what form they should take.

	Movement has been underway for some time now.
Privacy-Enhanced Mail (PEM) should appear in the Internet within the
year (famous last words :-).  Older RFCs for PEM are online.  A newer
set was just/is about to be released.

>How do you think we should take advantage of cryptography in the next
>generation network?  What tools would you use?  What organization?  Is
>there anything you want particularly to avoid?  I think it's important
>for us to develop a more accurate vision of what it is that we want.
>Otherwise, how will people know what to implement for us?

	All good questions.  The IETF has several groups actively
working on Internet Security, some under the Security Area and some
under other areas.  

Ran
atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil