Simon Josefsson <[email protected]> writes: >Mansour Moufid <[email protected]> writes: > >> Is there an alternative to the OpenPGP message format? > >Have you looked at JSON Web Encryption? > >https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7516
JWE is... well, it's an alternative in the same way that S/MIME is, but all three formats do more or less the same thing, they just use different bit- bagging techniques. The main difference between the three is that PGP and S/MIME use an efficient binary encoding while JWE uses a pretty inefficient text encoding (when the RFC appeared my first reaction was "It's PEM reinvented thirty years later"). So for: >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. you could say the same for JWE. Peter. _______________________________________________ Messaging mailing list [email protected] https://moderncrypto.org/mailman/listinfo/messaging
