An Open Specification for Pretty Good Privacy (openpgp) ------------------------------------------------------- Charter Last Modified: 2005-07-10 Current Status: Active Working Group Chair(s): Derek Atkins Security Area Director(s): Tim Polk Sam Hartman Security Area Advisor: Sam Hartman Mailing Lists: General Discussion:ietf-openpgp@imc.org To Subscribe: ietf-openpgp-request@imc.org In Body: Only the word subscribe Archive: http://www.imc.org/ietf-openpgp/mail-archive/ 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 ------ ------- -------------------------------------------- Dec 1999 Apr 2007 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