RFC 9580: OpenPGP

This document specifies the message formats used in OpenPGP. OpenPGP provides encryption with public key or symmetric cryptographic algorithms, digital…

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Outgoing relationships (31 related RFCs)

Obsoletes, Informative reference — RFC 4880: OpenPGP Message Format
Obsoletes, Informative reference — RFC 5581: The Camellia Cipher in OpenPGP
Obsoletes, Informative reference — RFC 6637: Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) in OpenPGP
Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 8174: Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words
Normative reference — RFC 8126: Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs
Normative reference — RFC 3629: UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646
Normative reference — RFC 4086: Randomness Requirements for Security
Normative reference — RFC 4648: The Base16, Base32, and Base64 Data Encodings
Normative reference — RFC 1321: The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm
Normative reference — RFC 5322: Internet Message Format
Normative reference — RFC 6234: US Secure Hash Algorithms (SHA and SHA-based HMAC and HKDF)
Normative reference — RFC 2822: Internet Message Format
Normative reference — RFC 8017: PKCS #1: RSA Cryptography Specifications Version 2.2
Normative reference — RFC 7748: Elliptic Curves for Security
Normative reference — RFC 8032: Edwards-Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA)
Normative reference — RFC 3394: Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Key Wrap Algorithm
Normative reference — RFC 1951: DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification version 1.3
Normative reference — RFC 3156: MIME Security with OpenPGP
Normative reference — RFC 1950: ZLIB Compressed Data Format Specification version 3.3
Normative reference — RFC 3713: A Description of the Camellia Encryption Algorithm
Normative reference — RFC 8018: PKCS #5: Password-Based Cryptography Specification Version 2.1
Normative reference — RFC 9106: Argon2 Memory-Hard Function for Password Hashing and Proof-of-Work Applications
Normative reference — RFC 2144: The CAST-128 Encryption Algorithm
Normative reference — RFC 7253: The OCB Authenticated-Encryption Algorithm
Informative reference — RFC 5869: HMAC-based Extract-and-Expand Key Derivation Function (HKDF)
Informative reference — RFC 6090: Fundamental Elliptic Curve Cryptography Algorithms
Informative reference — RFC 2440: OpenPGP Message Format
Informative reference — RFC 2978: IANA Charset Registration Procedures
Informative reference — RFC 1991: PGP Message Exchange Formats
Informative reference — RFC 5639: Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) Brainpool Standard Curves and Curve Generation

Incoming relationships (3 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 9788: Header Protection for Cryptographically Protected Email
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9980: Post-Quantum Cryptography in OpenPGP
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9787: Guidance on End-to-End Email Security