1996-10-10 - Re: pgp, edi, s/mime

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From: Andrew Loewenstern <andrew_loewenstern@il.us.swissbank.com>
To: Raph Levien <raph@cs.berkeley.edu>
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UTC Datetime: 1996-10-10 16:09:22 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 09:09:22 -0700 (PDT)

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From: Andrew Loewenstern <andrew_loewenstern@il.us.swissbank.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 09:09:22 -0700 (PDT)
To: Raph Levien <raph@cs.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: pgp, edi, s/mime
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Raph Levien writes:
>  In sum, S/MIME leaves PGP in the dust, both techically and as
>  a market force.

But does S/MIME still leave important sender and recipient information in the clear?

True, PGP is four years old and isn't as up-to-date anymore, but PGP 3.0 is  
supposed to have an important feature (although we will have to wait a year  
for it):  it is unencumbered by patents.


andrew





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