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  <[email protected]>

Security Area Director(s):
    William Polk  <[email protected]>
    Sam Hartman  <[email protected]>

Security Area Advisor:
    Sam Hartman  <[email protected]>

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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 Apr 2007   <draft-ietf-openpgp-rfc2440bis-21.txt>
               OpenPGP Message Format

Request For Comments:

 RFC   Stat Published     Title
------- -- ----------- ------------------------------------
RFC2440 PS   Nov 1998    OpenPGP Message Format

RFC3156 PS   Aug 2001    MIME Security with OpenPGP