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Re: security multiparts with multiple security services

1995-10-30 15:04:00
On Mon, 30 Oct 1995 14:26:36 EST, you said:
service, and the protected data.  I could imagine defining some
multi-security service body part that allows multiple this. That or
changing RFC 1847.  I'm not sure this feature is so important that 1847
should be changed for this, but I thought it was worth bringing up.

Well.. it's at Proposed Standard now.  It would be kind of hard to make
that big a change in it - unless you could show how it would be 100% 
upward-compatible.

Personally, I was surprised that this was so - especially for the 'signed'
variant, where it would have been *very* nice to be able to send out
a plaintext, and several (PGP/MOSS/SMIME/etc) signatures, so all who cared
could verify such signatures as they wished.  I must have blinked when this
happened... ;)

                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Computer Systems Engineer
                                Virginia Tech

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