New Secure HTTP draft (fwd)

Albert Lunde (Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu)
Tue, 6 Dec 1994 07:04:00 -0800

For those who are interested in development of security specs...

>Date: Tue, 6 Dec 1994 00:56:45 -0800
>X-Ph: V3.12@relay
>To: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com, www-security@ns1.rutgers.edu,
> shttp-talk@openmarket.com, network-wg@commerce.net,
> payments-wg@commerce.net
>From: ams@eit.com (Allan M. Schiffman)

>I've sent a copy to the Internet-Drafts editor, too late for folks at the
>IETF meeting this week to get it this way. (I know, I should have gotten it
>out earlier.)
>
>While we're waiting for it to get into the drafts directory, you can get
>the new spec from:
> http://www.commerce.net/information/standards/drafts/shttp.txt
>
>I'll also arrange for some printed copies to be available at the IETF meeting.
>
>Major changes from the June draft:
> * Reorganized -- includes table of contents!
> * More motivational & supporting material; 38 versus 23 pages [sorry].
> * Changes to the protocol to support:
> Manually distributed symmetric keys (e.g., passwords)
> Kerberos
> New mode for (non-signature) message authentication/integrity
> Unified key naming.
>
>Cheers,
>-Allan
>