[67626] in Cypherpunks
pgp, edi, s/mime
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Ubois)
Tue Oct 8 14:54:07 1996
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 11:26:14 -0700
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Jeff Ubois <jubois@netcom.com>
Interesting comments from a member of the IETF EDI-INT group, which is
developing standards for secure EDI over the net, and managing a Commercenet
pilot project:
- S/MIME and PGP are the two leading candidates for encrypting EDI messages,
S/MIME inside the US, and PGP outside the US where S/MIME is unavailable.
- If PGP 3.0 comes out on time with promised features, it could gain
adoption by large companies as a standard means of encrypting EDI messages;
that would pull smaller companies along, but it has a narrow window of
opportunity and could lose to S/MIME products like those from Deming.
- The G7 governments will impose key escrow on large companies trading over
the net, and while non-escrowed systems will continue to be available, they
are likely to be illegal, and certainly will be marginalized.
