Steve,
At 9:38 AM -0700 4/25/96, Steve Crocker wrote:
In a nutshell, MOSS is based on the idea of exploiting MIME pretty
thoroughly instead of just grafting cryptographic services into MIME as a
fresh application. This degree of intimacy and interdependence on MIME
didn't sell well to the commercial players.
I believe this analysis to be incorrect.
The message from the february email security workshop was broad and
thorough interest -- in fact it was really at the level of requirement --
in use of multipart/signature and a general desire to use multipart/encrypt
except that the technical difficulties of making it worthwhile appear to be
too much to be... worthwhile.
The range of options and choice that MOSS provides is usually what
I hear cited as its major problem, not its integration with MIME.
d/
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