Re: Message Security Protocol

Dave Crocker (dcrocker@brandenburg.com)
Thu, 8 Feb 1996 13:21:07 -0800

At 12:33 PM 2/8/96, Housley, Russ wrote:
>MSP (Message Security Protocol) is used in the Defense Message System.
>Since MSP is content independent, it can be used with MIME, RFC-822, or
>X.400 (P2, P22, P772, etc).  In my opinion, the signed receipt capability
>is important in both military and commercial environments.  Given an

	I encouraged Russ to submit a query about MSP.  He indicated that
it is getting significant commercial support.  I indicated that I was
unaware of commercial, native Internet email support for it, so one of the
goals *I* have for this exchange is to assess the position of MSP in the
Internet mail marketplace.

	thanks.

d/

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