© 1990 by British Computer Society
A Secure Messaging Architecture Implementing the X.400-1988 Security Features
1 Department of Computer Science, RHBNC, London University, Egham Hill, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK, 2 Racal Research Ltd., Reading, UK
The 1988 version of the X.400 Recommendations now include a number of security features designed to enable the provision of security services for Message Handling Systems. This paper describes one way in which the provided features can be used to provide a secure electronic mail system.
Received January 1989. revised March 1989.
* D. Rush and M. Walker are at Racal Research Ltd., Reading, England.
Department of Computer Science, RHBNC, London University, Egham Hill, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX