1992-10-13 - Mail headers

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From: Eric Hughes <hughes@soda.berkeley.edu>
To: CYPHERPUNKS@TOAD.COM
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Message ID: <9210131622.AA25597@soda.berkeley.edu>
Reply To: <9210131201.AA12086@domingo.teracons.com>
UTC Datetime: 1992-10-13 16:15:29 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 09:15:29 PDT

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From: Eric Hughes <hughes@soda.berkeley.edu>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 09:15:29 PDT
To: CYPHERPUNKS@TOAD.COM
Subject: Mail headers
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Hugh's comments brought up a idea to me.

RFC 822 is the standard for the format of Internet mail messages.
Anybody interested in the remailer should eventually read this thing.

In it there is already a standard header field "Encrypted."  It
accepts two optional arguments, a decryption type and an identifier
(say, for key lookup).  So we have a way of automatically telling
encrypted message without doing pattern recognition on the body.

I propose a couple more header fields.  "Digest" for signed message
digests.  "Key-Mgmt" for the distribution of new keys and key
compromise certificates, i.e. for automatic key distribution.

What else do we need to make a fairly automated crypto mail system?

Eric

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• 1992-10-10 (Sat, 10 Oct 92 11:04:58 PDT) - Mr. Squirrel? - Hal <74076.1041@CompuServe.COM>
  • 1992-10-13 (Tue, 13 Oct 92 05:02:06 PDT) - Mr. Squirrel? Just who is whom here? - hugh@domingo.teracons.com (Hugh Daniel)
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    • 1992-10-13 (Tue, 13 Oct 92 09:03:14 PDT) - Mr. Squirrel? Just who is who here? - Eric Hughes <hughes@soda.berkeley.edu>
    • 1992-10-13 (Tue, 13 Oct 92 09:15:29 PDT) - Mail headers - Eric Hughes <hughes@soda.berkeley.edu>
      • 1992-10-13 (Tue, 13 Oct 92 10:53:19 PDT) - Re: Mail headers - gnu@cygnus.com
        • 1992-10-13 (Tue, 13 Oct 92 13:25:13 PDT) - Mail headers - pmetzger@shearson.com (Perry E. Metzger)