Re: looking for introductory s/mime docs?

[pgut001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Peter Gutmann)]

"Erdal YILDIZ" <eyildiz@xxxxxxxxxx>

>I am looking for some high level documants about s/mime. I am very new in taht
>area and the docs I look for  must be in the beginners level. What is s/mime?
>The initiatives for it? Historical story of it? Etc.

You could look at part 3 of my crypto tutorial,
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/tutorial/, which covers among other
things "email security mechanisms, PEM, the PEM CA model, PGP, PGP keys and the
PGP trust model, MOSS, PGP/MIME, S/MIME and CMS, MSP" at a reasonably easy
level.  The historical background and other information is in there as well.

Peter.