Re: Encryption and Security from Jay Glicksman on 1994-05-19 (www-html@w3.org from May 1994)

From: Jay Glicksman <jay@eit.COM>
Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 11:41:20 -0700
To: ygoland@seas.ucla.edu
Cc: Multiple recipients of list <www-html@www0.cern.ch>
Message-Id: <199405191841.SAA28513@hnear>

>I just read on comp.org.eff.talk that there is now a 'secure' form of 
>HTML that will be used for mosaic to run rsa encryption. Has the standard 
>for this been published yet?

The protocol that is being made secure is HTTP not HTML. A demo
version is being shown as part of CommerceNet. The authors are working
on a spec which will be made public but it is not finished yet.

	Jay

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