PEM

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Full Title

Privacy Enhanced Mail PEM was an early security standard development process.

Context

Early in the effort to enable security email the PEM standards were in development.

Problems

Privacy was not considered until the process had already committed to the use of X.509 Certificates which leaked user private information.

Legacy

The PEM standard created the encoding format for certificates and other security content which is still in use today.

Reference