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directories. This draft is a work item of the An Open Specification
for Pretty Good Privacy Working Group of the IETF.
Title : OpenPGP Message Format
Author(s) : J. Callas, L. Donnerhacke, H. Finney, R. Thayer
Filename : draft-ietf-openpgp-formats-06.txt
Pages : 59
Date : 13-Jul-98
This document is maintained in order to publish all necessary
information needed to develop interoperable applications based on the
OpenPGP format. It is not a step-by-step cookbook for writing an
application. It describes only the format and methods needed to read,
check, generate, and write conforming packets crossing any network. It
does not deal with storage and implementation questions. It does,
however, discuss implementation issues necessary to avoid security
flaws.
Open-PGP software uses a combination of strong public-key and symmetric
cryptography to provide security services for electronic communications
and data storage. These services include confidentiality, key
management, authentication, and digital signatures. This document
specifies the message formats used in OpenPGP.
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