Subject: Re: new patent app conflicts with pgp

From: [email-masked] (Peter Gutmann)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 16:20:32 +1300 (NZDT)

>On 2002-01-08 09:00:42 -0500, vedaal wrote:
>>[C] According to a web page I located, RFC1991 was published August 1996
>>and includes the following text:
>
>See also Schneier, Applied Cryptography 2nd ed, p. 51, for a slightly more
>abstract description.  This is from 1996, too.

If you really want go go back to old stuff, there's the PEM RFCs starting in
1987, OSI (who?) work from the mid 1980's, and assorted conference papers and
research work on secure mail from the same time frame.

Peter.