[1033] in WWW Security List Archive
Securing information transports
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steff Watkins)
Fri Oct 13 06:13:58 1995
From: Steff Watkins <Steff.Watkins@Bristol.ac.uk>
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 07:53:19 +0100 (BST)
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Hello all,
forgive me if I've missed a previous discussion on this.
The question I'd like to ask is: Has anyone seriously looked into using
PGP for encoding of HTTP transactions??? What are the pro and cons????
It seems to me, with what little I know about PGP, that if it is pretty
good (as the name suggests), and it uses public key/private key
encryption, then surely it'd go most of the way to solving the quest of
secure transactions across the Web?!?!?!?
I have found one WebPage about using PGP on the Web. After that, the trail
goes pretty cold.
So, I'm assumiong there must be an obvious reason why people are NOT using
PGP for transactions. If so, what is it/are they???
Steff
: University of Bristol Steff.Watkins@bris.ac.uk
: URL: http://sw.cse.bris.ac.uk/ <= As mentioned in Wired 1.04
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