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[desaree@venera.isi.edu: RFC1040 now Available]
daemon@TELECOM.MIT.EDU (Henry Mensch)
Sat Jan 23 21:17:21 1988
From: henry@GARP.MIT.EDU (Henry Mensch)
To: kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
This might be of interest here . . .
Original-Subject: RFC1040 now Available
Original-Date: Fri, 22 Jan 88 16:22:36 PST
Original-From: Desaree Scott <desaree@venera.isi.edu>
A new Request for Comments is now available from the Network Information
Center in the online library at SRI-NIC.ARPA.
RFC 1040:
Title: Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail:
Part I: Message Encipherment and Authentication
Procedures
Author: J. Linn
Mailbox: Linn@CCY.BBN.COM
Pages: 29
Characters: 76276
pathname: RFC:RFC1040.TXT
This RFC is the outgrowth of a series of IAB Privacy Task Force meetings and
of internal working papers distributed for those meetings. This memo defines
message encipherment and authentication procedures, as the initial phase of an
effort to provide privacy enhancement services for electronic mail transfer in
the Internet. Detailed key management mechanisms to support these procedures
will be defined in a subsequent RFC. As a goal of this initial phase, it is
intended that the procedures defined here be compatible with a wide range of
key management approaches, including both conventional (symmetric) and
public-key (asymmetric) approaches for encryption of data encrypting keys.
Use of conventional cryptography for message text encryption and/or integrity
check computation is anticipated.
This RFC suggest a proposed protocol for the Internet community, and requests
discussion and suggestions for improvements. Distribution of this memo is
unlimited.
Public access files may be copied from the <RFC> directory at SRI-NIC.ARPA via
FTP with username ANONYMOUS and password GUEST.
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--jon.
