Dave Crocker <dcrocker at mordor.stanford.edu> said:
If not sooner. The lack of a general facility for Internet email
authentication (and privacy) is crippling expanded use for commerce.
Dave, I am disappointed, have you not checked X12.58 or "Secure EDI".
There is a perfectly good way to authenticate and protect electronic
commerce. For those who have not seen these documents call ODES at
1-800-334-4912 and order them. They show a true end-to-end protection
mechanism. I must reiterate that PEM or MIME is not end-to-end in an
electronic commerce environment, but only a (part of a) transport
mechanism.
What electronic commerce requires is protection of the base document,
not the transport mechanism.
(By the way, what ever happened to the EDI/MIME effort, there has been
no activity there for weeks???)
Peace ..Tom