Re: Message Security Protocol
Santosh Chokhani (chokhani@sisko.cygnacom.com)
Fri, 9 Feb 1996 12:26:02 -0500
This group should evaluate the Message Security Protocol (MSP) for the
e-mail. There are numerous advantages to considering MSP for the e-mail
tranport mechanism:
1. Lot of good work has been done with tax payer's money to develop a
protocol that offers a wide variety of security services in a flexible
manner. We should capitaize on that work.
2. The protocol is ASN.1 and BER based, providing for ease in
interoperability among hetereogenous platforms.
3. The protocol has been designed with sender and receiver requirements
in terms of certificate path processing.
4. Various commercial vendors are already working on building MSP
compliant products.
5. It is being standardized in the public sectors internationally.
6. The security and processing efficiency services include, signature,
encryption, rule-based access control, receipt generation, orginator
identity (X.509) certificate path, originator attribute certificate path,
message security label (used for rule-based access control), mail list
handling, etc.