Re: Current State: An EDIINT Short Status/ Request

[Dave Darnell <dave_d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:23 AM 5/3/96, Steve Botts wrote:
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>Dave, I have to disagree.  
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>S/MIME is no more vaporware than X12 is vaporware.  Both are specifications
that describe how to do something.  There are 
>toolkits to implement S/MIME available from RSA, Northern Telecom,
>& COST.   At Premenos we used the BSAFE toolkit from RSA to 
>implement S/MIME in Templar.  I believe Harbinger is using the 
>ENTRUST toolkit from Nortel in their implementation of S/MIME.

If you have S/MIME in Templar and Harbinger has it  -- your two
implementations must be talking to each other. Is this true?

If not then I am missing the point here.  Please explain further.

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>Just as end-users don't typically use a toolkit to do EDI, communications,
or word processing, but rather license a 
>commercially supported software product, it is likely that 
>EDI security for the Internet will continue to be implemented 
>in the same manner. 
>-Steve
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