S/MIME and the Future of Netscape

With regard to SSL and Netscape not being open to outside developers,
several leading e-mail outfits, including Qualcomm, Netscape, Frontier,
etc., are working on an interoperable secure e-mail standard called
"Secure/MIME," or "S/MIME."

And even if Netscape will not allow outside developers--like J. Random
Cypherpunk--access to the code internals and incorporaton of his work into
Netscape's final compiled code, not surprisingly, there are still numerous
options for hooking in. Hal Finney described some ideas, and I'm sure more
exist.

--Tim May

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> With regard to SSL and Netscape not being open to outside developers,
> several leading e-mail outfits, including Qualcomm, Netscape, Frontier,
> etc., are working on an interoperable secure e-mail standard called
> "Secure/MIME," or "S/MIME."

Huh? Don't know about MOSS? Its now hit Proposed Standard....

.pm

tcmay@sensemedia.net said:
> With regard to SSL and Netscape not being open to outside developers, 
> several leading e-mail outfits, including Qualcomm, Netscape, 
> Frontier, etc., are working on an interoperable secure e-mail 
> standard called "Secure/MIME," or "S/MIME." 

Do you have sources for this information?  MOSS is out there at least as a 
Internet Draft, and possibly further along, and Steve Dorner of Qualcomm, the 
original author of Eudora, is pretty active in the MIME community and I doubt 
he would support a second MIME type to do the same thing...

Bob

Bob Snyder writes:
> tcmay@sensemedia.net said:
> > With regard to SSL and Netscape not being open to outside developers, 
> > several leading e-mail outfits, including Qualcomm, Netscape, 
> > Frontier, etc., are working on an interoperable secure e-mail 
> > standard called "Secure/MIME," or "S/MIME." 
> 
> Do you have sources for this information?  MOSS is out there at least as a 
> Internet Draft,

In fact, MOSS is now a Proposed Standard.

> and possibly further along, and Steve Dorner of Qualcomm, the
> original author of Eudora, is pretty active in the MIME community
> and I doubt he would support a second MIME type to do the same
> thing...

I would guess the same.

.pm