On Monday July 19th 2004, the S/MIME Gateway Certification program was launched.
Certificates were presented to representatives of BT Syntegra and Tumbleweed
Communications in respect of certified products. In addition, NetIQ and ZixCorp both
issued statements of commitment to future participation in the program.
Luke Lucas and Joe Nakai of BT Syntegra receive their
certificate from
Allen Brown, President of The Open Group and Elliot Stone, Executive Director of
MHDC
Jim Normandin of Tumbleweed Communications receives
his certificate
The meeting on Wednesday July 21st opened with Mike Lambert, Director of the
Messaging Forum, giving a brief Introduction
to the S/MIME Gateway Certification program, focusing on the value of the program to
customers.
Ken Beer from Tumbleweed Communications and Luke Lucas from BT Syntegra
explained how their products implement the S/MIME Gateway profile and how they are
deployed.
Ken Beer in Implementing
the S/MIME Gateway Specification addressed the reason why gateway encryption products
are needed, how they work, and defined a set of "Implementation Best Practices".
In explaining the testing that was needed to achieve certification, he indicated that the
testing was repeatable by customers during deployment.
Luke Lucas in SMG
Implementation presented a case study of deployment of an SMG for a very large US
manufacturer, and also presented a set of Best Practices.
Building on these presentations, Ben Littauer led a discussion to initiate work
on the next version of the S/MIME Gateway specification.
Five work items were identified which need to be addressed in Version 2 of the program:
- Automated Key exchange
- Signatures
- SMG to Desktop
- SMG capabilities protocol
- Testing service
