RFC 6091 on Using OpenPGP Keys for Transport Layer Security (TLS) Authentication

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        RFC 6091

        Title:      Using OpenPGP Keys for Transport 
                    Layer Security (TLS) Authentication 
        Author:     N. Mavrogiannopoulos, D. Gillmor
        Status:     Informational
        Stream:     IETF
        Date:       February 2011
        Mailbox:    nikos.mavrogiannopoulos@esat.kuleuven.be, 
                    dkg@fifthhorseman.net
        Pages:      9
        Characters: 18529
        Obsoletes:  RFC5081

        I-D Tag:    draft-mavrogiannopoulos-rfc5081bis-09.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6091.txt

This memo defines Transport Layer Security (TLS) extensions and
associated semantics that allow clients and servers to negotiate the
use of OpenPGP certificates for a TLS session, and specifies how to
transport OpenPGP certificates via TLS.  It also defines the registry
for non-X.509 certificate types.  This document is not an Internet 
Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes.

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