I think that most cypherpunks would be interested in this. I realize that many of you are on the IETF announcement list and probably have already seen this, but I thought that I'd forward it for those of you who aren't on it... -derek ------- Forwarded Message A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : PGP Message Exchange Formats Author(s) : D. Atkins, W. Stallings, P. Zimmermann Filename : draft-pgp-pgpformat-00.txt Pages : 21 Date : 12/13/1994 PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) uses a combination of public-key and conventional encryption to provide security services for electronic mail messages and data files. These services include confidentiality and digital signature. PGP is widely used throughout the global computer community. This document describes the format of "PGP files", i.e., messages that have been encrypted and/or signed with PGP. PGP was created by Philip Zimmermann and first released, in Version 1.0, in 1991. Subsequent versions have been designed and implemented by an all-volunteer collaborative effort under the design guidance of Philip Zimmermann. PGP and Pretty Good Privacy are trademarks of Philip Zimmermann. Internet-Drafts are available by anonymous FTP. Login with the username "anonymous" and a password of your e-mail address. After logging in, type "cd internet-drafts" and then "get draft-pgp-pgpformat-00.txt". A URL for the Internet-Draft is: ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-pgp-pgpformat-00.txt Internet-Drafts directories are located at: o Africa Address: ftp.is.co.za (196.4.160.2) o Europe Address: nic.nordu.net (192.36.148.17) o Pacific Rim Address: munnari.oz.au (128.250.1.21) o US East Coast Address: ds.internic.net (198.49.45.10) o US West Coast Address: ftp.isi.edu (128.9.0.32) Internet-Drafts are also available by mail. Send a message to: mailserv@ds.internic.net. In the body type: "FILE /internet-drafts/draft-pgp-pgpformat-00.txt". NOTE: The mail server at ds.internic.net can return the document in MIME-encoded form by using the "mpack" utility. To use this feature, insert the command "ENCODING mime" before the "FILE" command. To decode the response(s), you will need "munpack" or a MIME-compliant mail reader. Different MIME-compliant mail readers exhibit different behavior, especially when dealing with "multipart" MIME messages (i.e., documents which have been split up into multiple messages), so check your local documentation on how to manipulate these messages. For questions, please mail to Internet-Drafts@cnri.reston.va.us. Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the Internet-Draft. - --NextPart Content-Type: Multipart/Alternative; Boundary="OtherAccess" - --OtherAccess Content-Type: Message/External-body; access-type="mail-server"; server="mailserv@ds.internic.net" Content-Type: text/plain Content-ID: <19941213160355.I-D@CNRI.Reston.VA.US> ENCODING mime FILE /internet-drafts/draft-pgp-pgpformat-00.txt - --OtherAccess Content-Type: Message/External-body; name="draft-pgp-pgpformat-00.txt"; site="ds.internic.net"; access-type="anon-ftp"; directory="internet-drafts" Content-Type: text/plain Content-ID: <19941213160355.I-D@CNRI.Reston.VA.US> - --OtherAccess-- - --NextPart-- ------- End of Forwarded Message