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An Open Specification for Pretty Good Privacy (openpgp)

Charter

Chairs:

Security Area Directors:

Security Area Advisor:

Mailing Lists:

Description of Working Group

OpenPGP is an Internet standard that covers object encryption, object signing, and identity certification. These were defined by the first incarnation of the OpenPGP working group.

The following is an excerpt from the charter of the original incarnation of the openpgp working group

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.

The working group concluded this work and was closed in March of 2008. In the intervening period, there has been a rough consensus reached that the RFC that defined the IETF openpgp standard, RFC4880, is in need of revision.

This incarnation of the working group is chartered to primarily produce a revision of RFC4880 to address issues that have been identified by the community since the working group was originally closed.

These revisions will include, but are not limited to:

  • Potential inclusion of elliptic curves recommended by the CFRG (see note below)

  • A symmetric encryption mechanism that offers modern message integrity protection (e.g. AEAD)

  • Revision of mandatory-to-implement algorithm selection and deprecation of weak algorithms

  • An updated public-key fingerprint mechanism

The Working Group will perform the following work

Revise RFC4880

Other work may be entertained by the working group as long as it does not interfere with the completion of the RFC4880 revision. As the revision of RFC4880 is the primary goal of the working group, other work may be undertaken, so long as:

  1. The work is directly related to OpenPGP.

  2. Will not unduly delay the closure of the working group after the revision is finished (unless the working group is rechartered).

  3. The proposed work has widespread support in the working group.

Inclusion of CFRG Curves

The Working Group will consider CFRG curves as possible Mandatory to Implement (MTI) based on the output of the CFRG and/or Working Group consensus in the matter.

Working Group Process

The working group will endeavor to complete most if not all of its work online on the working group's mailing list. We expect that the requirement for face-to-face sessions at IETF meetings to be minimal.

Furthermore, the working group will accept no ID's as working group items unless there is a review by at least two un-interested parties of the ID as part of the acceptance process.

Goals and Milestones

  1. September 2015: Working Group (rough) consensus on the necessary updates to RFC4880.

  2. February 2016: First wg-id for RFC4880bis.

  3. July 2016: RFC4880bis wg-id final call.

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