The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft 'MIME Security with OpenPGP' <draft-ietf-openpgp-mime-07.txt> as a Proposed Standard. This document is the product of the An Open Specification for Pretty Good Privacy Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Jeffrey Schiller and Marcus Leech. Technical Summary This document defines a MIME encapsulation for the OpenPGP Message Format. It is an update of RFC2015 taking into account lessons learned during the deployment of RFC2015 based systems. Security protocols provide a unique challenge for MIME based systems. Specifically it must be ensured that the binary representation of a message is not altered by a MIME aware gateway. Modification, if present will always break any provided digital signatures. Yet the obvious mechanism to ensure this in MIME is to encode the message in such a fashion that it is not human readable. This document defines how to best protect a message from unwanted modification while at the same time managing to keep the actual message format human readable. Working Group Summary The working group came to consensus on this document. Protocol Quality Jeffrey I. Schiller reviewed this protocol for the IETF.
