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'''Open PGP''' is an [[IETF]] standard for the [[PGP]] email encryption system. The current version, as of late 2008, is RFC 4880 <ref>{{cite | '''Open PGP''' is an [[IETF]] standard for the [[PGP]] email encryption system. The current version, as of late 2008, is RFC 4880 <ref>{{cite RFC | ||
| title = | | title = OpenPGP Message Format | ||
| author = J. Callas, L. Donnerhacke, H. Finney, D. Shaw and R. Thayer | | author = J. Callas, L. Donnerhacke, H. Finney, D. Shaw and R. Thayer | ||
| date = November 2007 | | date = November 2007 | ||
| url =http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4880 | | publisher - IETF | ||
| url = http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4880 | |||
}}</ref>, Earlier versions were RFC 1991 and RFC 2440. | }}</ref>, Earlier versions were RFC 1991 and RFC 2440. | ||
Revision as of 05:59, 29 November 2008
Open PGP is an IETF standard for the PGP email encryption system. The current version, as of late 2008, is RFC 4880 [1], Earlier versions were RFC 1991 and RFC 2440.
Supported public key algorithms are RSA, El Gamal (encrypt-only, not for signatures), and Digital Signature Algorithm. Supported block ciphers are IDEA, Triple DES, CAST-128, AES and Twofish.
Both the current commercial release [1] of PGP and the open source product GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) are based on this specification.