Standards?

[David Shaw]

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On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 12:55:27AM +0100, Lennart Filutowski wrote:
> Hi,
>   I have some questions regarding standards.. I was browsing the internet
> yesterday and found some article about cryptography, and the author kept
> mentioning some standards, IEEE 1363, PKCS, X.509v3 etc.. Anyone know what
> these mean or where you can read some more about them? Does GnuPG use any of
> these standards, or what standards besides OpenPGP do they use? Or are these
> standards a part of the OpenPGP standard?

Exactly.  One way of looking at OpenPGP is as a collection of
standards.  It uses (for example), PKCS, SHA1, RSA, DSA, etc. to make
messages.

X.509 can also be considered a collection of standards, but put
together in a different way than OpenPGP.

David
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