From: Bob Snyder <rsnyder@janet.advsys.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 95 05:53:26 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: S/MIME and the Future of Netscape
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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