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[Vint Cerf]

the obvious next thing would be some kind of uniform agreement on
strong authentication of the source of email and protecting contents.
I know about PGP of course, but it's not uniformly implemented and I
think we could usefully try again. Last time we tried, it was called
PEM and suffered from too pure a hierarchy of certificates, I think.

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On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Tony Finch <dot at dotat.at> wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, John Levine wrote:
>
>> >You mean akin to how SMTP, "Simple" mail transport protocol, was supposed
>> >to be replaced by something better when we figured out what email was
>> >going to be...:o)
>>
>> It may yet happen if we ever figure it out.
>
> I think it already happened with MIME. It probably needs to happen again,
> though :-)
>
> Tony.
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