[42204] in Cypherpunks
Re: What is needed for S/MIME remailer ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Weinstein)
Tue Oct 24 20:32:22 1995
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Jeff Weinstein <jsw@netscape.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 17:08:57 -0700
baldwin , Robert W. Baldwin wrote:
>
> The other day I was wondering what it would take to make an
> anonymous remailer for an S/MIME client. Implementing S/MIME from
> scratch is a lot of work given the lack of a public domain
> implementation, but it seems that a remailer could be built on top
> of a commercial email product that supported S/MIME. The question
> is: What features should a commercial S/MIME email product have to
> make it easy to support a remailer? Are there a small set of
> command line options that would greatly simplify a remailer
> implementation?
S/MIME is mostly PKCS#7. Eric Young is doing an implementation
of PKCS#7 for his SSLEAY package. It seems like a good place
to start...
--Jeff
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Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist
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