Subject: IPP> SEC - New RFC on HTTP Security

From: Carl-Uno Manros <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 15:26:42 PST

Hi,

I just got this in a message from the WEBDAV group.  It seems to be of
interest to our security discussions as well.

Carl-Uno

>To: IETF-Announce: ;
>Subject: RFC 2084 on Considerations for Web Transaction Security
>Cc: [email-masked]
>Mime-Version: 1.0
>Date: Wed, 22 Jan 97 12:13:27 PST
>Sender:[email-masked]
>From: RFC Editor <[email-masked]>
>
>
>A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.
>
>
>        RFC 2084:
>
>        Title:      Considerations for Web Transaction Security
>        Author:     G. Bossert, S. Cooper, W. Drummond
>        Date:       January 1997
>        Mailbox:    [email-masked], [email-masked],
>                    [email-masked]
>        Pages:      6
>        Characters: 9022
>        Updates/Obsoletes: None
>
>        URL:        ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc2084.txt
>
>
>This document specifies the requirements for the provision of security
>services to the HyperText Transport Protocol.  These services include
>confidentiality, integrity, user authentication, and authentication of
>servers/services, including proxied or gatewayed services.  Such
>services may be provided as extensions to HTTP, or as an encapsulating
>security protocol. This document is a product of the Web Transaction
>Security Working Group of the IETF.
>

Carl-Uno Manros
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