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NOTE: This charter is a snapshot of the 53rd IETF Meeting in Minneapolis, MN USA. It may now be out-of-date. Last Modified: 31-Jul-01
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.
| 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 |
| RFC | Status | Title |
| RFC2440 | PS | OpenPGP Message Format |
| RFC3156 | PS | MIME Security with OpenPGP |