Mansour Moufid <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Is there an alternative to the OpenPGP message format?
>
> There are three problems with OpenPGP, that I understand: metadata; [1]
> format oracles; [2] and difficulty of implementation. [3]
>
> There are many more problems[4] but I care about these three.
>
> So I'm looking for an alternative message format which: has minimal
> metadata; requires authenticated encryption; and is trivial to parse
> with Hammer.
>
> Does one exist?

Have you looked at JSON Web Encryption?

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7516

For completeness, this discussion should mention S/MIME.  I cannot
recall any technical advantage it has over OpenPGP though, so if OpenPGP
is not sufficient for you, S/MIME likely aren't either.

/Simon

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