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'''Privacy-Enhanced Mail''' ('''PEM''') is a secure e-mail standard that was never widely used. It is probably most notable for the other formats that borrowed from it and usurped its name (see [[PEM]]).

== Identification ==
A message using this format includes a line that reads "<code>-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE-----</code>".

For versions of the format prior to RFC 1421, the line reads "<code>-----PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE BOUNDARY-----</code>".

== Specifications ==
* RFC 1421: PEM Part I: Message Encryption and Authentication Procedures
* RFC 1422: PEM Part II: Certificate-Based Key Management
* RFC 1423: PEM Part III: Algorithms, Modes, and Identifiers
* RFC 1424: PEM Part IV: Key Certification and Related Services

Obsolete RFCs:
* RFC 989: PEM Part I
* RFC 1040: PEM Part I
* RFC 1113: PEM Part I
* RFC 1114: PEM Part II
* RFC 1115: PEM Part III

== Links ==
* [[Wikipedia:Privacy-enhanced Electronic Mail|Wikipedia: Privacy-enhanced Electronic Mail]]

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