%% You should probably cite draft-pep-general instead of this I-D. @techreport{birk-pep-00, number = {draft-birk-pep-00}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-birk-pep/00/}, author = {Volker Birk and HernĂ¢ni Marques and S. Shelburn and Sandro Koechli}, title = {{pretty Easy privacy (pEp): Privacy by Default}}, pagetotal = 21, year = 2017, month = jun, day = 29, abstract = {Building on already available security formats and message transports (like PGP/MIME for email), pretty Easy privacy (pEp) describes protocols to automatize operations (key management, key discovery, private key handling including peer-to-peer synchronization of private keys and other user data across devices) that have been seen to be barriers to deployment of end-to-end secure interpersonal messaging. pEp also introduces "Trustwords" (instead of fingerprints) to verify communication peers and proposes a trust rating system to denote secure types of communications and signal the privacy level available on a per-user and per-message level. In this document, the general design choices and principles of pEp are outlined.}, }