------- Forwarded Message To: IETF-Announce:; Cc: RFC Editor <rfc-editor@isi.edu> Cc: Internet Architecture Board <iab@isi.edu> From: The IESG <iesg-secretary@CNRI.Reston.VA.US> Subject: Protocol Action: MIME Security with Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) to Proposed Standard Date: Wed, 19 Jun 96 11:06:28 -0400 Message-ID: <9606191106.aa22287@IETF.CNRI.Reston.VA.US> The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft "MIME Security with Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)" <draft-elkins-pem-pgp-04.txt> as a Proposed Standard. This has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Harald Alvestrand, Keith Moore, and Jeff Schiller. Technical Summary This document describes how Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) can be used to provide privacy and authentication using the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) security content types described in RFC1847. Working Group Summary This document was not the product of an IETF working group but was reviewed via a 4 week IETF wide last call. The last call failed to raise any significant issues. Protocol Quality This document was reviewed for the IESG by Jeffrey I. Schiller. The protocol provides for an elegant way of encapsulating PGP objects within a MIME framework by making use of Security Multiparts for MIME (RFC1847). This permits a MIME aware user agent to read and process PGP signed and/or encrypted messages, yet it provides sufficient backwards compatibility for users with non-MIME aware mail user agents to make use of PGP directly to manually process messages prepared with this protocol. ------- End of Forwarded Message