Report of the UKERNA Secure Email Project

Paul Leyland <pcl@oucs.ox.ac.uk> - Piete Brooks <pb@cl.cam.ac.uk>

15 May 1996

• Contents
• Introduction
• Fundamental Concepts
  • Security: Privacy, Authenticity and Integrity
  • Privacy: Encryption
  • Authenticity: Digital Signatures
  • Integrity: Cryptographic Hashes
  • Authenticity and Integrity of Public Keys
  • Key Revocation
• Integration of PGP into Mail User Agents
  • Mail User Agent Survey
  • MUA Integration meetings
  • PGP -- MUA integration at present
• Key Service
  • Key Certification
    • Key Generation
    • Certification Authorities
    • Key recovery
    • Key revocation
  • Key Lookup
• International Collaboration
• The pgp.net Domain
• Conclusions and Recommendations
  • Mail User Agent Integration
  • Key Service
  • Collaboration
  • Certification Authorities
• Acknowledgments
• Bibliography
• Appendix A - Results of mail survey
• Appendix B - Minutes of the meeting 95/07/13
• Appendix C - Minutes of the meeting 95/12/18
  • Welcome
  • Apologies
  • Minutes of the previous meeting
    • Actions
  • Secure Email Report
  • Mail User Agent progress and documentation
  • MIME and PGP
  • What are the next steps?
  • Date of next meeting
  • Any other business
  • Action List
• Appendix D - Minutes of the meeting 96/3/27
• About this document ...