-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
Dave Crocker, <dcrocker(_at_)imc(_dot_)org>, writes:
At 10:28 AM 11/26/97 -0800, Hal Finney wrote:
Actually, people do exchange disk files all the time, either as email
attachments, or by FTP, or by sharing them in other ways. And there
In which case they are disk files and, again, are outside of the scope of
this effort.
This is effort is about adding security to Internet objects.
That seems to be a relatively restrictive description of what we are
doing, especially if you define Internet objects to only encompass
MIME objects.
I would suggest that this effort is about an Internet standard for
exchanging PGP encrypted/signed data. FTP transfers of disk files do
appear to be within the scope of the OP standard.
Here is the WG description, from
http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/openpgp-charter.html:
PGP, or Pretty Good Privacy, first appeared on the Internet in 1991. It
has enjoyed significant popularity amongst the Internet Community.
PGP is used both for protecting E-mail and File Storage. It presents a
way to digitally sign and encrypt information "objects." As such it is
well suited for any store and forward application.
The goal of the OpenPGP working group is to provide IETF standards for
the algorithms and formats of PGP processed objects as well as providing
the MIME framework for exchanging them via e-mail or other transport
protocols.
Because there is a significant installed base of PGP users, the working
group will consider compatibilty issues to avoid disenfranchising the
existing community of PGP users.
Hal Finney
hal(_at_)pgp(_dot_)com
hal(_at_)rain(_dot_)org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0
Charset: noconv
iQA/AwUBNHywf8Dh8jnv1nHwEQLIegCgld4Pf5FgaU8uWa90QqnRgPPCUOQAoNWf
4XjIA2qnZoNKzh5mhpghFQvJ
=9Yq7
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----