From: Loren James Rittle <rittle@comm.mot.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 07:45:50 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: RFC1984 on Cryptographic Technology
Message-ID: <9608201826.AA26429@supra.comm.mot.com>
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FYI,

To: IETF-Announce:;@ietf.org
Subject: RFC1984 on Cryptographic Technology
Cc: rfc-ed@isi.edu
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 96 08:40:43 PDT
Sender: ietf-announce-request@ietf.org
From: RFC Editor <rfc-ed@isi.edu>


A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.


        RFC 1984:

        Title:      IAB and IESG Statement on Cryptographic Technology
                    and the Internet
        Author:     IAB & IESG
        Date:       August 1996
        Mailbox:    brian@dxcoms.cern.ch, fred@cisco.com
        Pages:      5
        Characters: 10,738
        Updates/Obsoletes:  none

        URL:        ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1984.txt


The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and the Internet Engineering
Steering Group (IESG), the bodies which oversee architecture and
standards for the Internet, are concerned by the need for increased
protection of international commercial transactions on the Internet,
and by the need to offer all Internet users an adequate degree of
privacy.  Security mechanisms being developed in the Internet
Engineering Task Force to meet these needs require and depend on the
international use of adequate cryptographic technology.  Ready access
to such technology is therefore a key factor in the future growth of
the Internet as a motor for international commerce and communication.

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