1995-08-18 - Re: use PGP for http encryption instead!
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From: adam@bwh.harvard.edu (Adam Shostack)
To: perry@piermont.com
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UTC Datetime: 1995-08-18 15:04:58 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 18 Aug 95 08:04:58 PDT
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From: adam@bwh.harvard.edu (Adam Shostack)
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 95 08:04:58 PDT
To: perry@piermont.com
Subject: Re: use PGP for http encryption instead!
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| "George P. Magiros" writes:
| > i don't mean to be extremely brash, but couldn't one use PGP to provide
| > encrypted communication with the web.
|
| You ought to read up on S-HTTP, the expert on said protocol being our
| very own Eric Rescorla...
PGP support was taken out of the latest SHTTP draft,
apparently because no one had implemented it. Should someone build a
libSHTTP with PGP support, I suspect it would get back into the spec.
Adam
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