[buug] OpenPGP (was: ANNOUNCEMENT- BAD MEETING Sat June 7 Berkeley, & call4 Speakers)

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Keith Goodman (kwgoodman at gmail.com):

> BTW, just curious, why refer to it as a PGP key instead of a GPG key?
> Are the formats the same?

Effectively.  RFC 2440 in 1998 defined the "OpenPGP" key format, based
closely on (and almost entirely compatible with) PGP's.  GnuPG (aka
"GPG", started 1999) implements the OpenPGP standard.  For more, please
see "GnuPG Lecture" on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Security/