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Re: IETF building GAK into the PKI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Weinstein)
Tue Jul 14 21:21:11 1998
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 17:47:19 -0700
From: Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com>
To: Carl Ellison <cme@acm.org>
CC: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>, perry@piermont.com, cox@djehuti.com,
cryptography@c2.net, pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz
Carl Ellison wrote:
>
> I would love to see mailers (anyone from Qualcomm or Netscape listening?)
> keep mail archives enciphered under one or more storage keys. Symmetric
> crypto is fine for that. PGP mail can have the signature left attached
> to the cleartext (all enciphered under the storage key).
I agree. This is something we've thought about, but haven't had the
opportunity to implement.
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