Re: embedding public-key cryptography into HTML

Albert Lunde (Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu)
Thu, 6 Apr 95 17:35:14 EDT

> > I am not up on the exact requirements for a DTD but I'd like to give a
> > preliminary one to the working group and ask you to please let me know what
> > I need to add to make it complete. The encryption tags as I see it would
> > work something like:
> >
> > <CRYPT form=PGP role=text>
> > <CRYPT form=PGP role=key>
> >
> > <SIGN form=PGP role=text>
> > <SIGN form=PGP role=signature>
> >

It seems like this overlaps quite a bit with the stuff suggested
by S-HTTP, at least in the case where the transport is HTTP.

(I assume, regular PGP stuff would work for HTML sent via mail or news.)

Also this may get over into the jurisdiction of www-security.

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    Albert Lunde                      Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu