Message From KO/Office

[mark.hughes@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Peter,
E-mail and EDI only differ in that the content of one is
person-to-person unstructured and the content of the other is
application-to-application structured.  But as far as addressing and
comms and encryption goes, they're the same beast.
Requirements for security/encryption for person-to-person are the
same as application-to-application from a business point of view.  I
need privacy, authentication, non-repudiation, integrity, etc for
both types of communication.
So my preferred solution is to take an outgoing message from my EDI
Translation application, give it to my e-mail application which then
applies for that Trading Partner the same encryption as my
person-to-person emails to a human at that Trading Partner, and it
then sends the EDI message as a standard email.
When I receive a message from my Trading Partner (EDI or E-mail) my
e-mail application decrypts them using the same algorithm.  The
stuff that is addressed to mark.hughes@ccamatil.com is read by me.
The stuff that is addressed to edi@ccamatil.com is automatically
re-directed to my translator and handled there.  Doesn't seem too
complex a concept to me.
EDI and e-mail are both the same.  The fact that trad-EDI is all
sent using proprietary addressing over proprietary VANs is part of
the problem, Peter, not part of the solution.
Regards, Mark


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*  Message From : HUGHES, MARK          *
*  Location     : AUSTRALIA-CCA HDQ     *
*  KOMAIL ID    : N17503  (CCAMCQN1)    *
*  Date and Time: 05/24/96  07:25:41    *
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