Ubiquitous Secure Mail (usm)
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Charter
Last Modified: 07/27/1997
Current Status: Concluded Working Group
Chair(s):
D Eastlake <
[email protected]>
Security Area Director(s):
Jeffrey Schiller <
[email protected]>
Steve Bellovin <
[email protected]>
Security Area Advisor:
Jeffrey Schiller <
[email protected]>
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Description of Working Group:
Deployment of secure mail is currently being slowed by the problems of
user agent migration and key distribution. In addition, problems of
forgeries and spam are increasing the importance of providing some
level of strong authentication with mail. This BOF will discuss
possibilities of using host and mail gateway level mail secrurity and
using DNS for mail security key distribution.
Goals and Milestones:
Internet-Drafts:
No Current Internet-Drafts.
Request For Comments:
None to date.
