[5453] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: message-signing at the MTA level
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Rose)
Mon Aug 23 00:00:07 1999
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 21:45:53 -0400
To: Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>
From: Greg Rose <ggr@qualcomm.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <14271.23262.969714.202149@desk.crynwr.com>
At 22:09 21/08/1999 -0400, Russell Nelson wrote:
>I've been thinking about cryptographic signing of messages at the mail
>transfer agent level. I can think of how to do it, but I'm not sure
>what problem it solves. :) Anyone have any ideas?
Signing messages at the MTA level solves no problem at all unless there's a
widely deployed PKI.
>[I remember that someone in Australia built some experimental patches
>to do this for sendmail some time back.
That was me/us. There's a paper coming up and a rerelease of the software
in about three weeks. I'll send another message then.
regards,
Greg.
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