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<p style="margin:0px;white-space:pre-wrap">I've just finished the implementation of RFC 4880 in Python (at least part of it).</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;white-space:pre-wrap">And I am asking the question :</p><p style="margin:0px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;white-space:pre-wrap"><i>why is PGP not using a standard format to encode data ?</i></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;white-space:pre-wrap">I mean : we could very well use XML, JSON or YAML to represent a PGP document.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;white-space:pre-wrap">Is there a good reason to define a specific format for storing cryptographic data ?</p><p style="margin:0px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;white-space:pre-wrap">Regards,</p><p style="margin:0px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;white-space:pre-wrap">Denis</p></div></div>