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- Privacy-Enhanced Electronic Mail (pem)
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- Charter
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- Chair(s):
- Stephen Kent <kent@bbn.com>
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- Security Area Director(s)
- Stephen Crocker <crocker@tis.com>
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- Mailing lists:
- General Discussion:pem-dev@tis.com
- To Subscribe: pem-dev-request@tis.com
- Archive: pem-dev-request@tis.com
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- Description of Working Group:
- PEM is the outgrowth of work by the Privacy and Security
- Research Group (PSRG) of the IRTF. At the heart of PEM is a set of
- procedures for transforming RFC 822 messages in such a fashion as to
- provide integrity, data origin authenticity, and optionally,
- confidentiality. PEM may be employed with either symmetric or
- asymmetric cryptographic key distribution mechanisms. Because the
- asymmetric (public-key) mechanisms are better suited to the large
- scale, heterogeneously administered environment characteristic of the
- Internet, to date only those mechanisms have been standardized. The
- standard form adopted by PEM is largely a profile of the CCITT X.509
- (Directory Authentication Framework) recommendation.
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- PEM is defined by a series of documents. The first in the
- series defines the message processing procedures. The second defines
- the public-key certification system adopted for use with PEM.
- The third provides definitions and identifiers for various
- algorithms used by PEM. The fourth defines message formats and conventions for
- user registration, Certificate Revocation List (CRL) distribution,
- etc. (The first three of these were previously issued as RFCs 1113,
- 1114 and 1115. All documents have been revised and are being issed
- first as Internet Drafts.)
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- Goals and Milestones:
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- Done Submit first, third, and fourth documents as Internet-Drafts.
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- Ongoing Revise Proposed Standards and submit to IESG for consideration as
- Draft Standard, and repeat for consideration as Internet Standard.
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- Done Submit second document as Internet-Draft.
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- Done First IETF Working Group meeting to review Internet-Drafts.
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- Done Submit revised Internet-Drafts based on comments received during
- Working Group meeting, from pem-dev mailing list, etc.
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- Done Submit Internet-Drafts to IESG for consideration as Proposed
- Standards.
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- Done Post an Internet Draft of the MIME/PEM Interaction specification.
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- Apr 93 Submit the PEM/MIME Specification to the IESG for consideration as a
- Proposed Standard.
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- Internet Drafts:
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- Posted Revised I-D Title <Filename>
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- Nov 92 Apr 93 <draft-ietf-pem-mime-02.txt>
- MIME-PEM Interaction
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- Request For Comments:
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- RFC Stat Published Title
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- RFC1319 Apr 92 The MD2 Message-Digest Algorithm
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- RFC1320 Apr 92 The MD4 Message-Digest Algorithm
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- RFC1321 Apr 92 The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm
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- RFC1421 PS Feb 93 Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part
- I: Message Encryption and Authentication Procedures
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- RFC1424 PS Feb 93 Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part
- IV: Key Certification and Related Services
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- RFC1422 PS Feb 93 Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part
- II: Certificate-Based Key Management
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- RFC1423 PS Feb 93 Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part
- III: Algorithms, Modes, and Identifiers
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