IPP Mail Archive: IPP> I-D ACTION:draft-hoffman-smtp-ssl-06.txt

IPP> I-D ACTION:draft-hoffman-smtp-ssl-06.txt

Carl-Uno Manros (cmanros@cp10.es.xerox.com)
Tue, 28 Apr 1998 11:09:40 PDT

There is a new draft out on using TLS with SMTP. This might actually ccome
in handy for our IPP Notifications document.

Carl-Uno

>To: IETF-Announce:;
>From: Internet-Drafts@ietf.org
>Reply-to: Internet-Drafts@ietf.org
>Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-hoffman-smtp-ssl-06.txt
>Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 07:11:47 PDT
>Sender: cclark@cnri.reston.va.us
>
>A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
directories.
>
>
> Title : SMTP Service Extension for Secure SMTP over TLS
> Author(s) : P. Hoffman
> Filename : draft-hoffman-smtp-ssl-06.txt
> Pages : 4
> Date : 27-Apr-98
>
>This document describes an extension to the SMTP service that allows an
>SMTP server and client to use transport-layer security to provide private,
>authenticated communication over the Internet. This gives SMTP agents the
>ability to protect some or all of their communications from eavesdroppers
>and attackers.
>
>Internet-Drafts are available by anonymous FTP. Login with the username
>"anonymous" and a password of your e-mail address. After logging in,
>type "cd internet-drafts" and then
> "get draft-hoffman-smtp-ssl-06.txt".
>A URL for the Internet-Draft is:
>ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hoffman-smtp-ssl-06.txt
>
>Internet-Drafts directories are located at:
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>Internet-Drafts are also available by mail.
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>Send a message to: mailserv@ietf.org. In the body type:
> "FILE /internet-drafts/draft-hoffman-smtp-ssl-06.txt".
>
>NOTE: The mail server at ietf.org can return the document in
> MIME-encoded form by using the "mpack" utility. To use this
> feature, insert the command "ENCODING mime" before the "FILE"
> command. To decode the response(s), you will need "munpack" or
> a MIME-compliant mail reader. Different MIME-compliant mail readers
> exhibit different behavior, especially when dealing with
> "multipart" MIME messages (i.e. documents which have been split
> up into multiple messages), so check your local documentation on
> how to manipulate these messages.
>
>
>Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader
>implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the
>Internet-Draft.
>
><ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hoffman-smtp-ssl-06.txt>
>
Carl-Uno Manros
Principal Engineer - Advanced Printing Standards - Xerox Corporation
701 S. Aviation Blvd., El Segundo, CA, M/S: ESAE-231
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Email: manros@cp10.es.xerox.com