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RE: Encrypted mail

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From: Daniel C. Newman
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 16:17
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> A couple of years ago I got a program called ENCRYPT from Wesleyan and have
> had it here for a while.  It hasn't been used much until now, but we recently
> had a user who wnated to mail encrypted text and asked if this could be built
> in directly into mail.  ENCRYPT generates mail-like headers, which potentially
> allows decryption on the fly, and might lend itself to incorporation into a
> mail package.
>
> Any thoughts on whether this might be something you would consider for the
> PMDF user agent, or whether other mailers might support encryption (or
> security-enhanced mail, as ENCRYPT calls it).

We have every intention of supporting privacy enhanced mail (PEM) with many of the
frills (message integrity checks, non-repudiation of origin).  However, like
most everyone else, we've been waiting for the PEM working group of the IETF
to come to some sort of closure on their standards work.  This closure now
seems to be nearing and we'll begin looking into adding PEM support to PMDF.

Dan
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From: dan@innosoft.com (Daniel C. Newman)
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Subject: RE: Encrypted mail
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