RFC 1040: Privacy enhancement for Internet electronic mail: Part I: Message encipherment and authentication procedures
This RFC has been replaced. Do not implement against it for new work — it was formally obsoleted by RFC 1113.
Current document in this lineage: RFC 1421 — Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part I: Message Encryption and Authentication Procedures
In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC
This RFC is the Outgrowth of a series of IAB Privacy Task Force meetings and of internal working papers distributed for those meetings. This memo defines message encipherment and authentication procedures, as the initial phase of an effort to provide privacy enhancement services for electronic mail transfer in the Internet. Detailed key management mechanisms to support these procedures will be defined in a subsequent RFC. As a goal of this initial phase, it is intended that the procedures defined here be compatible with a wide range of key management approaches, including both conventional (symmetric) and public-key (asymmetric) approaches for encryption of data encrypting keys. Use of conventional cryptography for message text encryption and/or integrity check computation is anticipated.
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC1040
- Published
- January 1988
- Authors
- J. Linn
- Status
- UNKNOWN
- Stream
- Legacy
- Area
- —
- Pages
- 29
- Also known as
- —
Standards lineage
This document is one revision in a chain of 4 RFCs, each formally replacing the one before it.
- RFC 989 (1987)
- RFC 1040 (1988)
- RFC 1113 (1989)
- RFC 1421 (1993) ✓
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One later RFC formally updates or obsoletes part of this document.
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