So send a signed HTTP post over SSL. A digital sig is a digital sig whether by email or post. The only advantange email has is that the clients are better setup to manage the keys and perform the signing.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Scott Stark Chief Technology Officer JBoss Group, LLC xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hiram Chirino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 4:19 PM Subject: RE: [JBoss-dev] jboss.net email transport > The cool thing about a signed secure e-mail message is that you get > non-repudiation. If at a later time company B tells company A, hey I never > sent you a Purchase Order for 1 million widgets.. company A can show them > the signed secure e-mail message that they received the PO in. It would be > harder to do something like that over http. > > Regards, > Hiram > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: To learn the basics of securing your web site with SSL, click here to get a FREE TRIAL of a Thawte Server Certificate: http://www.gothawte.com/rd524.html _______________________________________________ Jboss-development mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development