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- RFC 1421:
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- Title: Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail:
- Part I: Message Encryption and Authentication
- Procedures
- Author: J. Linn
- Mailbox: 104-8456@mcimail.com
- Pages: 42
- Characters: 103,894
- Obsoletes: RFC 1113
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- This is one of a series of documents defining privacy enhancement
- mechanisms for electronic mail transferred using Internet mail
- protocols. This document is the outgrowth of a series of meetings of
- the Privacy and Security Research Group (PSRG) of the Internet
- Research Task Force (IRTF) and the PEM Working Group of the Internet
- Engineering Task Force (IETF). The author would like to thank the
- members of the PSRG and the IETF PEM WG, as well as all participants
- in discussions on the "pem-dev@tis.com" mailing list, for their
- contributions to this document.
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- This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.
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- This RFC specifies an IAB standards track protocol for the Internet
- community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements.
- Please refer to the current edition of the "IAB Official Protocol
- Standards" for the standardization state and status of this protocol.
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