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The PEM-DEV mailing list is for discussions related to the development and
deployment of Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM), and now encompasses its
successor, MIME Object Security Services (MOSS).
WHAT ARE PEM AND MOSS?
Both are protocols for adding security mechanisms (digital signature
and encryption) to electronic mail. PEM is purely text-based, while
MOSS works in the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME)
environment and can handle multi-media mail.
PEM, which is a Proposed Internet Standard, is defined in a series of
four documents:
RFC 1421: Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail:
Part I: Message Encryption and Authentication Procedures
RFC 1422: Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail:
Part II: Certificate-Based Key Management
RFC 1423: Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail:
Part III: Algorithms, Modes, and Identifiers
RFC 1424: Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail:
Part IV: Key Certification and Related Services
MOSS depends on the addition of security multiparts to MIME, which are
defined in the following document, which is a Proposed Internet
Standard:
RFC 1847: Security Multiparts for MIME:
Multipart/Signed and Multipart/Encrypted
MOSS, which is a Proposed Internet Standard, is defined by one
document:
RFC 1848: MIME Object Security Services
All of the above RFCs are available in the PEM-DEV archives.
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