[1105] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: RSA publishes RC2 for IETF Review
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Fri Jun 27 20:12:39 1997
To: Marc Horowitz <marc@cygnus.com>
cc: Vin McLellan <vin@shore.net>, cryptography@c2.net
In-reply-to: Your message of "27 Jun 1997 16:03:48 EDT."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 19:43:49 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Marc Horowitz writes:
> S/MIME is considered the de facto standard for interoperable, secure
> e-mail.
[...]
> Does anybody believe [...][this] first statement?
I don't, but that's me.
Perry
PS The secure email situation has been a sad story. A combination of FUD,
the meltdown of PEM, and other problems over time have resulted in the
sad situation we are in now.
