MOSS Protocol

This Protocol provides a mapping from the MOSS security-multipart encoding to a production suitable for further processing by Security/* extensions.

MOSS control-parts are rerouted into HTTP headers.

Open Questions:

  • Multiple, ordered, ocurrences of Originator, MIC-Info contradict HTTP semantics (according to Roy).

  • Barrier to progressive decoding in the Signature type, which places control headers at the end of the message
  • Deprecation of epilogues and prologues allowed by MIME.

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    MOSS Protocol was converted on Tue Oct 03 21:14:55 EDT 1995 by the eText Engine, version 5, release 0.96