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Re: Narrow the scope: no new email signature protocol

2004-10-05 20:37:24

On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 16:16:02 -0700, Jim Fenton wrote:
 At 02:31 PM 10/5/2004 -0700, Dave Crocker wrote:
 In the small we are talking about a signature that is
 valid from an initiator to a responder, and then
 discarded by the responder.  It creates a new signature
 as an initiator for the next responder.


 i think that accurately represents the current proposals.

 does anyone disagree?

 Depends on what you mean by an initiator and responder.  

Given the term "responder", I assumed this mean classic email 
originator and recipient. Hence it gets used during the process 
of moving the message from the originator to the recipient.  If 
the recipient chooses to move a copy of the message to another 
recipient, then the first recipient -- in the role of a new 
originator -- would create a new signature.


James G -- does this match what you meant?


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