RFC 4880: Is there a good reason to define a specific format for storing cryptographic data ?

[Denis BEURIVE]

Hello,


I've just finished the implementation of RFC 4880 in Python (at least part
of it).


And I am asking the question :


*why is PGP not using a standard format to encode data ?*


I mean : we could very well use XML, JSON or YAML to represent a PGP
document.


Is there a good reason to define a specific format for storing
cryptographic data ?


Regards,


Denis
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