ascii-armor.scroll

import ../code/conceptPage.scroll

id ascii-armor
name ASCII Armor
appeared 2007
tags textEncodingFormat
conceptDescription OpenPGP provides the service of converting the raw 8-bit binary octet stream to a stream of printable ASCII characters, called Radix-64 encoding or ASCII Armor.

relatedConcepts base64
reference https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4880#page-54

pygmentsHighlighter ASCII armored
 filename asc.py
 fileExtensions asc pem id_dsa id_ecdsa id_ecdsa_sk id_ed25519 id_ed25519_sk id_rsa
example
   -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
   Version: OpenPrivacy 0.99
   
   yDgBO22WxBHv7O8X7O/jygAEzol56iUKiXmV+XmpCtmpqQUKiQrFqclFqUDBovzS
   vBSFjNSiVHsuAA==
   =njUN
   -----END PGP MESSAGE-----