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kent@BBN.COM (Steve Kent) (10/17/89)

Cilfford,

	Thanks for your interest in the privancy enhanced Internet
mail RFCs (1113-15).  Software implementing RFCs 1113 and 1115 is
now undergoing testing and will be distributed to members of the
IAB Privacy and Security Research Group for Beta test soon.  This
software does NOT support the key management system described in
RFC 1114 and thus is not suitable for widespread distribution. 
Also, RSA Data Security Inc. is not yet ready to support the 
registration procedure described in RFC 1114.

	We expect Beta test of a complete set of software in the
first quarter of 1990, including ancillary software for user and
organization registration, revoked certificate list managament, etc.
Feel free to contact me early next year if you want to be considered
for Beta test site designation.

Thanks,

Steve Kent
Chair, 
IAB Privacy and Security Research Group