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RFC 4880
Title: OpenPGP Message Format
Author: J. Callas, L. Donnerhacke,
H. Finney, D. Shaw,
R. Thayer
Status: Standards Track
Date: November 2007
Mailbox: jon(_at_)callas(_dot_)org,
lutz(_at_)iks-jena(_dot_)de,
hal(_at_)finney(_dot_)org,
dshaw(_at_)jabberwocky(_dot_)com,
rodney(_at_)canola-jones(_dot_)com
Pages: 90
Characters: 203706
Obsoletes: RFC1991, RFC2440
See-Also:
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-openpgp-rfc2440bis-22.txt
URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4880.txt
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.
OpenPGP 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. [STANDARDS TRACK]
This document is a product of the An Open Specification for Pretty Good
Privacy Working Group of the IETF.
This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.
STANDARDS TRACK: This document specifies an Internet standards track
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