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Enhanced Security Services for S/MIME draft now available

1997-11-04 09:30:47
The first draft of "Enhanced Security Services for S/MIME" is now available
at <http://www.imc.org/draft-hoffman-smime-ess>. This draft describes
extensions to S/MIME v2 and S/MIME v3 for security labels, signed receipts,
and secure mailing lists.

For those of you following the press, this is the draft that some have been
mistakenly been calling "S/MIME v3" or "the MSP extensions". To be clear,
this is an optional set of extensions, not mandatory in any way. Also, the
extensions for security labels and signed receipts will work in S/MIME v2;
the secure mailing list extension requires bits from CMS, which is only
part of S/MIME v3. More importantly, there are reasons for non-defense
people to be interested in the extensions.

Enjoy!


--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium

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