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From: ggm@brolga.cc.uq.oz (George Michaelson)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Secure SMTP & X.400
Message-ID: <286@brolga.cc.uq.oz>
Date: 6 Apr 89 01:46:09 GMT
Organization: University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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on a slightly more serious note, since secure SMTP will require
post-processing to read, and presumably will look pretty much like
btoa-encoded binary forms, how is this going to tie in with X.400
secure mail forms? anyone doing the gateway code yet?

also, by positing a framework for transmitting encoded body-types in
plain SMTP we can equally propose other complex body-types, and thus
X.400 and OSI can be staved off for a few years yet by concentrating 
on the UA's to de-munge the mail and forgetting all the transport stuff.

whenever I proposed this to developers in the UK, they poo-pooed any
suggestion of passing X.400 in Greybook text or SMTP body's as "backwards
looking" and "non-productive for OSI migration" but if the decoders
are going to go in place anyhow why not extend them a bit?

	-george
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