On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 01:25:12AM -0500, Legatus wrote:
Well color me confused. I didn't know there was a gpg protocol or for that matter an SSL protocol. SSL: Secure socket layer is an encrypted transport mechanism
SSL/TLS is very much called a protocol. The RFC for TLS is titled "The TLS Protocol", which is based on the SSL Protocol specification.
GPG: is a key management tool/file signing tool/file encryption tool.
There is no GPG protocol, it is indeed just a program. However, the document for OpenPGP, which describes the file and data formats also refers to itself as a protocol document. According to wikipedia, a protocol is: "In computing, a protocol is a convention or standard that controls or enables the connection, communication, and data transfer between two computing endpoints." David -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
