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Title : Mail Ubiquitous Security Extensions (MUSE)
Author(s) : D. Eastlake
Filename : draft-eastlake-muse-02.txt
Pages : 22
Date : 05/12/1997
Secure electronic mail can provide authentication of the source of mail and
confidentiality for its contents. These features are becoming increasingly
important as the Internet grows exponentially and email is increasingly
used for critical, sensitive, and confidential communications. In
addition, authentication can make mail filtering more effective and
ubiquitous encryption indirectly makes all mail more secure be defeating
traffic analysis based on distinctions between encrypted and non-encrypted
mail and defeating bulk searching through insecure mail.
However, use of secure mail is not widespread due to the problems
of key distribution and lack of migration to secure mail enabled
user agents. This draft proposes partial solutions to these
two problems by using coarser grained identity to permit
some authentication and confidentiality without user agent
change, and secure DNS for key distribution. These changes
also support limited host and domain level mail security policies.
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