Re: [ncc-services-wg] E-mail Client Testing for S/MIME Compliance

8 Jan 2004


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At the RIPE 45 Meeting a proposal was presented to implement an additional
form
of strong authentication for protecting objects in the RIPE Database and
to
allow for secure communication by e-mail with the RIPE NCC. This
implementation
uses the X.509 certificates. A question was raised by some members about
how
widespread is the compliance of S/MIME within mail clients. The RIPE NCC
Software Engineering Department has undertaken a study to evaluate the use
of
S/MIME by mail clients.
Just a quick question, how many man hours did it take to get this study done
and compile the report ? How much time would it take on the other hand to
implement this _additional_ form of strong authentication without the report
?

Regards,

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Grzegorz BRZESKI