Privacy-Enhanced Mail (RFC 1421)

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Name Privacy-Enhanced Mail (RFC 1421)
Ontology
Released ~1987

Privacy-Enhanced Mail (PEM) is a secure e-mail standard that was never widely used. It is probably most notable for the other formats that borrowed from it and usurped its name (see PEM).

Identification

A message using this format includes a line that reads "-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE-----".

For versions of the format prior to RFC 1421, the line reads "-----PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE BOUNDARY-----".

Specifications

  • RFC 1421: PEM Part I: Message Encryption and Authentication Procedures
  • RFC 1422: PEM Part II: Certificate-Based Key Management
  • RFC 1423: PEM Part III: Algorithms, Modes, and Identifiers
  • RFC 1424: PEM Part IV: Key Certification and Related Services

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