[FYI] (Fwd) RFC 2440 on OpenPGP Message Format

["Axel H. Horns" <axel.horns@fitug.de>]

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Subject:       RFC 2440 on OpenPGP Message Format
Cc:            rfc-ed@ISI.EDU
Date:          Wed, 11 Nov 1998 14:06:10 -0800
From:          RFC Editor <rfc-ed@ISI.EDU>


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        RFC 2440:

        Title:	    OpenPGP Message Format
 Author(s):  J. Callas, L. Donnerhacke, H. Finney, R. Thayer
 Status:     Proposed Standard
 Date:       November 1998
        Mailbox:    jon@pgp.com, lutz@iks-jena.de, hal@pgp.com,
      rodney@unitran.com
 Pages:      65
        Characters: 141371
        Updates/Obsoletes/See Also: None
        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-openpgp-formats-08.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2440.txt

This document is maintained in order to publish all necessary
information needed to develop interoperable applications based on the
OpenPGP format. It is not a step-by-step cookbook for writing an
application. It describes only the format and methods needed to read,
check, generate, and write conforming packets crossing any network. It
does not deal with storage and implementation questions.  It does,
however, discuss implementation issues necessary to avoid security
flaws.

This document is a product of the An Open Specification for Pretty
Good Privacy Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

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Joyce K. Reynolds and Alegre Ramos
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