OpenPGP Message Format
draft-ietf-openpgp-rfc4880bis-10
Network Working Group W. Koch
Internet-Draft GnuPG e.V.
Obsoletes4880, 5581, 6637 (if approved) B. Carlson
Intended status: Standards Track R.H. Tse
Expires: 4 March 2021 Ribose
D.A. Atkins
D.K. Gillmor
31 August 2020
OpenPGP Message Format
draft-ietf-openpgp-rfc4880bis-10
Abstract
{ Work in progress to update the OpenPGP specification from RFC4880 }
This document specifies the message formats used in OpenPGP. OpenPGP
provides encryption with public-key or symmetric cryptographic
algorithms, digital signatures, compression and key management.
This document is maintained in order to publish all necessary
information needed to develop interoperable applications based on the
OpenPGP format. It is not a step-by-step cookbook for writing an
application. It describes only the format and methods needed to
read, check, generate, and write conforming packets crossing any
network. It does not deal with storage and implementation questions.
It does, however, discuss implementation issues necessary to avoid
security flaws.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
1.1. Terms
2. General functions
2.1. Confidentiality via Encryption
2.2. Authentication via Digital Signature
2.3. Compression
2.4. Conversion to Radix-64
2.5. Signature-Only Applications
3. Data Element Formats
3.1. Scalar Numbers
3.2. Multiprecision Integers
3.3. Key IDs
3.4. Text
3.5. Time Fields
3.6. Keyrings
3.7. String-to-Key (S2K) Specifiers
3.7.1. String-to-Key (S2K) Specifier Types
3.7.2. String-to-Key Usage
4. Packet Syntax
4.1. Overview
4.2. Packet Headers
4.2.1. Old Format Packet Lengths
4.2.2. New Format Packet Lengths
4.2.3. Packet Length Examples
4.3. Packet Tags
5. Packet Types
5.1. Public-Key Encrypted Session Key Packets (Tag 1)
5.2. Signature Packet (Tag 2)
5.2.1. Signature Types
5.2.2. Version 3 Signature Packet Format
5.2.3. Version 4 and 5 Signature Packet Formats
5.2.4. Computing Signatures
5.3. Symmetric-Key Encrypted Session Key Packets (Tag 3)
5.4. One-Pass Signature Packets (Tag 4)
5.5. Key Material Packet
5.5.1. Key Packet Variants
5.5.2. Public-Key Packet Formats
5.5.3. Secret-Key Packet Formats
5.6. Algorithm-specific Parts of Keys
5.6.1. Algorithm-Specific Part for RSA Keys
5.6.2. Algorithm-Specific Part for DSA Keys
5.6.3. Algorithm-Specific Part for Elgamal Keys
5.6.4. Algorithm-Specific Part for ECDSA Keys
5.6.5. Algorithm-Specific Part for EdDSA Keys
5.6.6. Algorithm-Specific Part for ECDH Keys
5.7. Compressed Data Packet (Tag 8)
5.8. Symmetrically Encrypted Data Packet (Tag 9)
5.9. Marker Packet (Obsolete Literal Packet) (Tag 10)
5.10. Literal Data Packet (Tag 11)
5.11. Trust Packet (Tag 12)
5.12. User ID Packet (Tag 13)
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