Open-PGP BOF (openpgp)

Tuesday, August 12 at 0900-1115
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Chair: Charles Breed <cbreed@mail.pgp.com>

DESCRIPTION:

PGP has become a very popular method for establishing trust between internet
users for securing communications. In order to grow the installed-base of
over 4 million users, the 'pgp-protocol' can be extended to support new
features such as,

	1. additional certificate types that are being proposed for various
	   public key infrastructures (X.509v3, SPKI-SDSI)
	2. new cipher suites (elliptic curve, other symmetric ciphers) and
	   cipher identifiers
	3. enhanced methods for public pgp key / certificate exchange 
	   (search, retrieval, revocation)

I'd like to explore the level of interest by conducting "market research" 
and technical "brainstorming" on this topic. An open email list for this 
BOF is located at http://www.imc.org/ietf-open-pgp/ hosted by Internet 
Mail Consortium, Paul Hoffman <phoffman@imc.org>

AGENDA:

1. attendees sign-in on roster
2. Review current Internet-Draft of pgp5.0
3. Explain motivation for BOF
4. Go through list of possible extensions / additions
5. Brainstorm new changes, additions, modifications
6. Measure level of interest in forming a WG