Re: Message From KO/Office

[Joanne.Ghahremani@xxxxxxx]

     New address for Joanne Ghahremani
     
     SMTP (Internet) ghahrej@reston.btna.com
     
     X.400 address /c=us/a=mci/p=btna/g=joanne/s=ghahremani
     
     Please make necessary changes.
     
     
     
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Subject: Message From KO/Office                                      
Author:  mark.hughes@ccamatil.com at INTERNET 
Date:    5/23/96 5:46 PM
     
     
     
     
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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