Last Call: Security Multiparts for MIME: Multipart/Signed and Multipart/Encrypted to Proposed Standard

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Subject: Last Call: Security Multiparts for MIME: Multipart/Signed and Multipart/Encrypted to Proposed Standard
From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 14:52:13 PDT
Organization: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center

Are multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted, delivered over normal HTTP
connections, reasonable components of www security? If a form wanted you to
send signed or encrypted mail back as the result of filling out the form, would
it specify "multiplart/encrypted" in its ENCTYPE?


iesg-secretary@CNRI.Reston.VA.US (The IESG) wrote:
>
>The IESG has received a request from the Privacy-Enhanced Electronic
>Mail Working Group to consider "Security Multiparts for MIME:
>Multipart/Signed and Multipart/Encrypted"
><draft-ietf-pem-sigenc-03.txt> for the status of Proposed Standard.
>
>The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and
>solicits final comments on this action. Please send any comments to
>the iesg@cnri.reston.va.us or ietf@cnri.reston.va.us mailing lists by
>July 6, 1995.
>
>
news:9506231309.aa06051@IETF.CNRI.Reston.VA.US

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