What is OpenPGP?
Location: http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=284604 Created: Dec 22, 2000 Modified: 2000-12-22 17:14:38.335 Author: John Mitchell (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=4) OpenPGP is an IETF specification for a standard, completely open PGP (Pretty Good Privacy). OpenPGP is defined in RFC 2440 as providing “data integrity services for messages and data files” via encryption (symmetric and asymmetric), digital signatures, compression, radix-64 (aka ASCII armoring), and certificate and key mangement services.