How do PGP and PEM differ?
- by Dummy Derp
Email messages are sent in plain text which means that the messages I send to Derpina are visible to anyone who somehow gets access to them while they are in transit.
To overcome this, various encryption mechanisms were developed.
PEM and PGP are two of them.
PEM - canonically converts-adds digital signature-encrypts and sends
PGP does exactly the same.
So where do they differ?
Or is it that PGP (being a program) is used to generate a PEM message?