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jawbone@gmail.com (Jawbone Ofanass) writes:

>What does the name "armored file" refer to?
>What is the origination of calling it armored?

The name is probably from Phil Zimmerman

>Armor usually means something is protected, but this is a straight ASCII file.

Right. Making it straight ASCII is what protects it. If you send
unencoded binary data through email, expect it to be corrupted.

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"Jawbone Ofanass" wrote in message
news:4b16a5d5.0411011841.68e26e3e@posting.google.c om...
> What does the name "armored file" refer to?

PGP radix 64 encoding

> What is the origination of calling it armored?

rfc 2440,
6.2. Forming ASCII Armor
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2440.txt

>
> Armor usually means something is protected, but this is a straight
ASCII file.

when encrypted but in ascii form of pgp rdix 64 'armor'
it is protected,
and therefore, 'armored'

vedaal
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Jawbone Ofanass writes:

> What does the name "armored file" refer to?
> What is the origination of calling it armored?
>
> Armor usually means something is protected, but this is a straight ASCII file.

I think it refers to the fact that, once encoded in "armor," the actual
encoded content won't be corrupted by passage through multiple nodes as
e-mail (plain text without armor may be modified, especially with
respect to things like space and newline characters).

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