Re: A brief comparison of email encryption protocols
James M. Galvin (galvin@eit.com)
Fri, 23 Feb 1996 04:45:26 -0400
At 3:55 PM 2/19/96, Raph Levien wrote:
> That said, I'd like to emphasize a point made by the S/MIME FAQ. It says
>that "MOSS can be thought of as a framework rather than a specification,"
>because it fails to specify certain details such as the cryptographic
>algorithms.
Surely you realize that the S/MIME FAQ is hardly a source of objective,
factual statements about a competing technology. For example, MOSS does
specify which algorithms to use. It points to RFC1423.
Jim
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