An Open Specification for Pretty Good Privacy (openpgp)

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Last Modified: 2003-05-01

Chair(s):
Derek Atkins <derek@ihtfp.com>
Security Area Director(s):
Russell Housley <housley@vigilsec.com>
Steven Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
Security Area Advisor:
Steven Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
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Description of Working Group:
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.

Security Issues:

The whole purpose of Open-PGP is to provide security services.
Goals and Milestones:
Done  Submit Internet-Draft for PGP Key Format & Message Specification
Done  Submit Internet Draft for MIME encapsulation of PGP Messages Specification
Done  Issue WG Last Call for PGP Key Format & Message Specification Internet-Draft documents
Done  Submit PGP Key Format & Message Specification Internet-Draft to IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard.
Done  WG Last Call for PGP/MIME draft
Done  Submit PGP/MIME draft to IESG for consideration as PROPOSED standard
May 01  Submit Multiple Sig draft to IESG for consideration as PROPOSED standard
Jul 01  Begin RFC2440, PGP/MIME Interoperability testing
Aug 01  Request DRAFT status for RFC2440
Internet-Drafts:
  • - draft-ietf-openpgp-rfc2440bis-08.txt
    • Request For Comments:
    OpenPGP Message Format (RFC 2440) (141371 bytes)
    MIME Security with OpenPGP (RFC 3156) (26809 bytes)

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