An Open Specification for Pretty Good Privacy (openpgp)
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Charter
Last Modified: 2005-07-10
Current Status: Active Working Group
Chair(s):
Derek Atkins <derek@ihtfp.com>
Security Area Director(s):
Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com>
Sam Hartman <hartmans-ietf@mit.edu>
Security Area Advisor:
Sam Hartman <hartmans-ietf@mit.edu>
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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 2001 Submit Multiple Sig draft to IESG for consideration as PROPOSED
standard
Jul 2001 Begin RFC2440, PGP/MIME Interoperability testing
Aug 2001 Request DRAFT status for RFC2440
Internet-Drafts:
Posted Revised I-D Title <Filename>
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Dec 1999 Mar 2007 <draft-ietf-openpgp-rfc2440bis-19.txt>
OpenPGP Message Format
Request For Comments:
RFC Stat Published Title
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RFC2440 PS Nov 1998 OpenPGP Message Format
RFC3156 PS Aug 2001 MIME Security with OpenPGP