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Re: A brief comparison of email encryption protocols

1996-02-23 03:04:00
At 3:55 PM 2/19/96, Raph Levien wrote:
 That said, I'd like to emphasize a point made by the S/MIME FAQ. It says
that "MOSS can be thought of as a framework rather than a specification,"
because it fails to specify certain details such as the cryptographic
algorithms.

Surely you realize that the S/MIME FAQ is hardly a source of objective,
factual statements about a competing technology.  For example, MOSS does
specify which algorithms to use.  It points to RFC1423.

Jim

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