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openpgp                                                    D. K. Gillmor
Internet-Draft                                                      ACLU
Intended status: Informational                              1 March 2024
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                Stateless OpenPGP Command Line Interface
                   draft-dkg-openpgp-stateless-cli-10

Abstract

   This document defines a generic stateless command-line interface for
   dealing with OpenPGP messages, known as sop.  It aims for a minimal,
   well-structured API covering OpenPGP object security.

About This Document

   This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC.

   The latest revision of this draft can be found at
   https://dkg.gitlab.io/openpgp-stateless-cli/.  Status information for
   this document may be found at https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-
   dkg-openpgp-stateless-cli/.

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   Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at
   https://gitlab.com/dkg/openpgp-stateless-cli/.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     1.1.  Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     1.2.  Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     1.3.  Using sop in a Test Suite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     1.4.  Semantics vs. Wire Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   2.  Examples  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   3.  sopv Subset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     3.1.  sopv Versioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   4.  Subcommands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     4.1.  Meta Subcommands  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
       4.1.1.  version: Version Information  . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
       4.1.2.  list-profiles: Describe Available Profiles  . . . . .  10
     4.2.  Key and Certificate Management Subcommands  . . . . . . .  10
       4.2.1.  generate-key: Generate a Secret Key . . . . . . . . .  10
       4.2.2.  change-key-password: Update a Key's Password  . . . .  11
       4.2.3.  revoke-key: Create a Revocation Certificate . . . . .  12
       4.2.4.  extract-cert: Extract a Certificate from a Secret
               Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
     4.3.  Messaging Subcommands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
       4.3.1.  sign: Create Detached Signatures  . . . . . . . . . .  13
       4.3.2.  verify: Verify Detached Signatures  . . . . . . . . .  14
       4.3.3.  encrypt: Encrypt a Message  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15
       4.3.4.  decrypt: Decrypt a Message  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  18
       4.3.5.  inline-detach: Split Signatures from an Inline-Signed
               Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  20
       4.3.6.  inline-verify: Verify an Inline-Signed Message  . . .  22
       4.3.7.  inline-sign: Create an Inline-Signed Message  . . . .  23
     4.4.  Transport Subcommands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  24
       4.4.1.  armor: Convert Binary to ASCII  . . . . . . . . . . .  24
       4.4.2.  dearmor: Convert ASCII to Binary  . . . . . . . . . .  26
   5.  Input String Types  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  26
     5.1.  DATE  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  26



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     5.2.  USERID  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  27
     5.3.  SUBCOMMAND  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  27
     5.4.  PROFILE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  27
   6.  Input/Output Indirect Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  28
     6.1.  Special Designators for Indirect Types  . . . . . . . . .  29
       6.1.1.  @ENV: Special Designator for Environment Variable . .  29
       6.1.2.  @FD: Special Designator for File Descriptor . . . . .  29
     6.2.  CERTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  29
     6.3.  KEYS  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  30
     6.4.  CIPHERTEXT  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  30
     6.5.  INLINESIGNED  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  31
     6.6.  SIGNATURES  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  32
     6.7.  SESSIONKEY  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  32
     6.8.  MICALG  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  32
     6.9.  PASSWORD  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  32
     6.10. VERIFICATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  33
     6.11. DATA  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  33
     6.12. PROFILELIST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  34
   7.  Failure Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  34
   8.  Known Implementations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  36
   9.  Alternate Interfaces  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  38
   10. Guidance for Implementers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  38
     10.1.  One OpenPGP Message at a Time  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  38
     10.2.  Simplified Subset of OpenPGP Message . . . . . . . . . .  38
     10.3.  Validate Signatures Only from Known Signers  . . . . . .  39
     10.4.  OpenPGP Inputs can be either Binary or ASCII-armored . .  39
     10.5.  Complexities of the Cleartext Signature Framework  . . .  40
     10.6.  Reliance on Supplied Certs and Keys  . . . . . . . . . .  41
     10.7.  Text is always UTF-8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  41
     10.8.  Passwords are Human-Readable . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  42
       10.8.1.  Generating Material with Human-Readable Passwords  .  42
       10.8.2.  Consuming Password-protected Material  . . . . . . .  43
     10.9.  Be Careful with Special Designators  . . . . . . . . . .  43
     10.10. Nuances for Hardware-backed Secret Key Material  . . . .  44
   11. Guidance for Consumers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  45
     11.1.  Choosing Between --as=text and --as=binary . . . . . . .  45
     11.2.  Special Designators and Unusual Filenames  . . . . . . .  46
   12. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  46
     12.1.  Signature Verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  46
     12.2.  Compression  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  48
   13. Privacy Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  48
     13.1.  Object Security vs. Transport Security . . . . . . . . .  48
   14. References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  48
     14.1.  Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  48
     14.2.  Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  49
   Appendix A.  C Library API (Tentative)  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  50
     A.1.  Design Choices for Library API  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  62
     A.2.  Library Use Patterns  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  62



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     A.3.  libsopv C API Subset  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  63
   Appendix B.  Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  64
   Appendix C.  Future Work  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  65
   Appendix D.  Document History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  65
     D.1.  Substantive Changes between -09 and -10:  . . . . . . . .  66
     D.2.  Substantive Changes between -08 and -09:  . . . . . . . .  66
     D.3.  Substantive Changes between -07 and -08:  . . . . . . . .  66
     D.4.  Substantive Changes between -06 and -07:  . . . . . . . .  67
     D.5.  Substantive Changes between -05 and -06:  . . . . . . . .  67
     D.6.  Substantive Changes between -04 and -05:  . . . . . . . .  67
     D.7.  Substantive Changes between -03 and -04:  . . . . . . . .  67
     D.8.  Substantive Changes between -02 and -03:  . . . . . . . .  68
     D.9.  Substantive Changes between -01 and -02:  . . . . . . . .  68
     D.10. Substantive Changes between -00 and -01:  . . . . . . . .  69
   Author's Address  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  69

1.  Introduction

   Different OpenPGP implementations have many different requirements,
   which typically break down in two main categories: key/certificate
   management and object security.

   The purpose of this document is to provide a "stateless" interface
   that primarily handles the object security side of things, and
   assumes that secret key management and certificate management will be
   handled some other way.

   Isolating object security from key/certificate management should make
   it easier to provide interoperability testing for the object security
   side of OpenPGP implementations, as described in Section 1.3.

   This document defines a generic stateless command-line interface for
   dealing with OpenPGP messages, known here by the placeholder sop.  It
   aims for a minimal, well-structured API.

   An OpenPGP implementation should not name its executable sop to
   implement this specification.  It just needs to provide a program
   that conforms to this interface.

   A sop implementation should leave no trace on the system, and its
   behavior should not be affected by anything other than command-line
   arguments and input.

   Obviously, the user will need to manage their secret keys (and their
   peers' certificates) somehow, but the goal of this interface is to
   separate out that task from the task of interacting with OpenPGP
   messages.




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   While this document identifies a command-line interface, the rough
   outlines of this interface should also be amenable to relatively
   straightforward library implementations in different languages.

1.1.  Requirements Language

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
   "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in
   BCP 14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all
   capitals, as shown here.

1.2.  Terminology

   This document uses the term "key" to refer exclusively to OpenPGP
   Transferable Secret Keys (see Section 11.2 of [RFC4880]).

   It uses the term "certificate" to refer to OpenPGP Transferable
   Public Key (see Section 11.1 of [RFC4880]).

   "Stateless" in "Stateless OpenPGP" means avoiding secret key and
   certificate state.  The user is responsible for managing all OpenPGP
   certificates and secret keys themselves, and passing them to sop as
   needed.  The user should also not be concerned that any state could
   affect the underlying operations.

   OpenPGP revocations can have "Reason for Revocation"
   (Section 5.2.3.23 of [RFC4880]), which can be either "soft" or
   "hard".  The set of "soft" reasons is: "Key is superseded" and "Key
   is retired and no longer used".  All other reasons (and revocations
   that do not state a reason) are "hard" revocations.

   This document refers to a special verification-only subset of the sop
   command-line interface as sopv (see Section 3 for more details).

1.3.  Using sop in a Test Suite

   If an OpenPGP implementation provides a sop interface, it can be used
   to test interoperability (e.g.,
   [OpenPGP-Interoperability-Test-Suite]).

   Such an interop test suite can, for example, use custom code (_not_
   sop) to generate a new OpenPGP object that incorporates new
   primitives, and feed that object to a stable of sop implementations,
   to determine whether those implementations can consume the new form.






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   Or, the test suite can drive each sop implementation with a simple
   input, and observe which cryptographic primitives each implementation
   chooses to use as it produces output.

1.4.  Semantics vs. Wire Format

   The semantics of sop are deliberately simple and very high-level
   compared to the vast complexity and nuance available within the
   OpenPGP specification.  This reflects the perspective of nearly every
   piece of tooling that relies on OpenPGP to accomplish its task: most
   toolchains don't care about the specifics, they just want the high-
   level object security properties.

   Given this framing, this document generally tries to avoid
   overconstraining the details of the wire format objects emitted, or
   what kinds of wire format structures should be acceptable or
   unacceptable.  This allows a test suite to evaluate and contrast the
   wire format choices made by different implementations in as close to
   their native configuration as possible.  It also makes it easier to
   promote interoperability by ensuring that the native wire formats
   emitted by one implementation can be consumed by another, without
   relying on their choices of wire format being constrained by this
   draft.

   Where this draft does identify specific wire format requirements,
   that might be due to an ambiguity in the existing specifications
   (which maybe needs fixing elsewhere), or to a bug in this
   specification that could be improved.

2.  Examples

   These examples show no error checking, but give a flavor of how sop
   might be used in practice from a shell.

   The key and certificate files described in them (e.g., alice.sec)
   could be for example those found in
   [I-D.draft-bre-openpgp-samples-01].














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   sop generate-key "Alice Lovelace <alice@openpgp.example>" > alice.sec
   sop extract-cert < alice.sec > alice.pgp

   sop generate-key "Bob Babbage <bob@openpgp.example>" > bob.sec
   sop extract-cert < bob.sec > bob.pgp

   sop sign --as=text alice.sec < statement.txt > statement.txt.asc
   sop verify statement.txt.asc alice.pgp < statement.txt

   sop encrypt --sign-with=alice.sec bob.pgp < msg.eml > ciphertext.asc
   sop decrypt bob.sec < ciphertext.asc > cleartext.eml

   See Section 7 for more information about errors and error handling.

3.  sopv Subset

   While the primary goal of this document is to provide a full sop
   interface, as a special case, an implementer may choose to produce a
   version of the command-line interface that only supports OpenPGP
   signature verification.  As a shorthand, this document refers to such
   an interface as sopv, or "the sopv subset".  This can be useful for
   constrained environments where the only thing needed is signature
   verification, for example, system installation or update media.

   A full implementation of sop by definition provides sopv, of course.

   Only the following subcommands and their associated options MUST be
   implemented for sopv:

   *  version (Section 4.1.1)

   *  verify (Section 4.3.2)

   *  inline-verify (Section 4.3.6)

3.1.  sopv Versioning

   The abstract sopv interface is itself versioned using [SEMVER].  The
   definition of the relevant subcommands and options specified in this
   document is known as sopv version 1.0.

   If backward-incompatible changes are made to the sopv subset, the
   major version number will be increased.  If the sopv subset is
   extended without backward-incompatible changes, the minor version
   number will be increased.

   Elements of the CLI relevant to sopv are annotated in this document
   with the sopv version in which they were introduced.



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4.  Subcommands

   sop uses a subcommand interface, similar to those popularized by
   systems like git and svn.

   If the user supplies a subcommand that sop does not implement, it
   fails with UNSUPPORTED_SUBCOMMAND.  If a sop implementation does not
   handle a supplied option for a given subcommand, it fails with
   UNSUPPORTED_OPTION.

   All subcommands that produce OpenPGP material on standard output
   produce ASCII-armored (Section 6 of
   [I-D.ietf-openpgp-crypto-refresh-10]) objects by default (except for
   sop dearmor).  These subcommands have a --no-armor option, which
   causes them to produce binary OpenPGP material instead.

   All subcommands that accept OpenPGP material on input should be able
   to accept either ASCII-armored or binary inputs (see Section 10.4)
   and behave accordingly.

   See Section 6 for details about how various forms of OpenPGP material
   are expected to be structured.

4.1.  Meta Subcommands

   The subcommands grouped in this section are related to the sop
   implementation itself.

4.1.1.  version: Version Information

   sop version [--backend|--extended|--sop-spec|--sopv]

   *  Standard Input: ignored

   *  Standard Output: version information

   This subcommand emits version information as UTF-8-encoded text.

   With no arguments, the version string emitted should contain the name
   of the sop implementation, followed by a single space, followed by
   the version number.  A sop implementation should use a version number
   that respects an established standard that is easily comparable and
   parsable, like [SEMVER].

   If --backend is supplied, the implementation should produce a
   comparable line of implementation and version information about the
   primary underlying OpenPGP toolkit.




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   If --extended is supplied, the implementation may emit multiple lines
   of version information.  The first line MUST match the information
   produced by a simple invocation, but the rest of the text has no
   defined structure.

   If --sop-spec is supplied, the implementation should emit a single
   line of text indicating the latest version of this draft that it
   targets, for example, draft-dkg-openpgp-stateless-cli-06.  If the
   implementation targets a specific draft but the implementer knows the
   implementation is incomplete, it should prefix the draft title with a
   "~" (TILDE, U+007E), for example: ~draft-dkg-openpgp-stateless-cli-
   06.  The implementation MAY emit additional text about its
   relationship to the targeted draft on the lines following the
   versioned title.

   If --sopv is supplied, the implementation should produce a single
   line with the implemented [SEMVER] version of the sopv interface
   subset (see Section 3) that this implementation provides complete
   coverage for.  If the implementation does not provide complete
   coverage for any sopv interface, it should emit nothing on standard
   out and return UNSUPPORTED_OPTION.

   --backend, --extended, --sop-spec, and --sopv are mutually-exclusive
   options.

   Example:

$ sop version
ExampleSop 0.2.1
$ sop version --backend
LibExamplePGP 3.4.2
$ sop version --extended
ExampleSop 0.2.1
Running on MonkeyScript 4.5
LibExamplePGP 3.4.2
LibExampleCrypto 3.1.1
LibXCompression 4.0.2
See https://pgp.example/sop/ for more information
$ sop version --sop-spec
~draft-dkg-openpgp-stateless-cli-06

This implementation does not handle @FD: special designators for output.
$ sop version --sopv
1.0
$

   The version subcommand and all of its options are part of the sopv
   subset (see Section 3) starting at sopv version 1.0.



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4.1.2.  list-profiles: Describe Available Profiles

   sop list-profiles SUBCOMMAND

   *  Standard Input: ignored

   *  Standard Output: PROFILELIST (Section 6.12)

   This subcommand emits a list of profiles supported by the identified
   subcommand.  The first profile listed is the default profile, as
   described in Section 6.12.

   If the indicated SUBCOMMAND does not accept a --profile option, it
   returns UNSUPPORTED_PROFILE.

   Example:

   $ sop list-profiles generate-key
   default: use the implementer's recommendations
   rfc4880: use algorithms from RFC 4880
   $

4.2.  Key and Certificate Management Subcommands

   The subcommands grouped in this section are primarily intended to
   manipulate keys and certificates.

4.2.1.  generate-key: Generate a Secret Key

   sop generate-key [--no-armor]
       [--with-key-password=PASSWORD]
       [--profile=PROFILE]
       [--signing-only]
       [--] [USERID...]

   *  Standard Input: ignored

   *  Standard Output: KEYS (Section 6.3)

   Generate a single default OpenPGP key with zero or more User IDs.

   The generated secret key SHOULD be usable for as much of the sop
   functionality as possible.  In particular:

   *  It should be possible to extract an OpenPGP certificate from the
      key in KEYS with sop extract-cert.





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   *  The key in KEYS should be able to create signatures (with sop
      sign) that are verifiable by using sop verify with the extracted
      certificate.

   *  Unless the --signing-only parameter is supplied, the key in KEYS
      should be able to decrypt messages (with sop decrypt) that are
      encrypted by using sop encrypt with the extracted certificate.

   The detailed internal structure of the certificate is left to the
   discretion of the sop implementation.

   If the --with-key-password option is supplied, the generated key will
   be password-protected (locked) with the supplied password.  Note that
   PASSWORD is an indirect data type from which the actual password is
   acquired (Section 6).  See also the guidance on ensuring that the
   password is human-readable in Section 10.8.1.

   If no --with-key-password option is supplied, the generated key will
   be unencrypted.

   If the --profile argument is supplied and the indicated PROFILE is
   not supported by the implementation, sop will fail with
   UNSUPPORTED_PROFILE.

   The presence of the --signing-only option is intended to create a key
   that is only capable of signing, not decrypting.  This is useful for
   deployments where only signing and verification are necessary.

   If any of the USERID options are not valid UTF-8, sop generate-key
   fails with EXPECTED_TEXT.

   If the implementation rejects any USERID option that is valid UTF-8
   (e.g., due to internal policy, see Section 5.2), sop generate-key
   fails with BAD_DATA.

   Example:

 $ sop generate-key 'Alice Lovelace <alice@openpgp.example>' > alice.sec
 $ head -n1 < alice.sec
 -----BEGIN PGP PRIVATE KEY BLOCK-----
 $

4.2.2.  change-key-password: Update a Key's Password

   sop change-key-password [--no-armor]
       [--new-key-password=PASSWORD]
       [--old-key-password=PASSWORD...]




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   *  Standard Input: KEYS (Section 6.3)

   *  Standard Output: KEYS (Section 6.3)

   The output will be the same set of OpenPGP Transferable Secret Keys
   as the input, but with all secret key material locked according to
   the password indicated by the --new-key-password option (or, with no
   password at all, if --new-key-password is absent).  Note that --old-
   key-password can be supplied multiple times, and each supplied
   password will be tried as a means to unlock any locked key material
   encountered.  It will normalize a Transferable Secret Key to use a
   single password even if it originally had distinct passwords locking
   each of the subkeys.

   If any secret key packet is locked but cannot be unlocked with any of
   the supplied --old-key-password arguments, this subcommand should
   fail with KEY_IS_PROTECTED.

   Example:

# adding a password to an unlocked key:
$ sop change-key-password --new-key-password=@ENV:keypass < unlocked.key > locked.key
# removing a password:
$ sop change-key-password --old-key-password=@ENV:keypass < locked.key > unlocked.key
# changing a password:
$ sop change-key-password --old-key-password=@ENV:keypass --new-key-password=@ENV:newpass < locked.key > refreshed.key
$

4.2.3.  revoke-key: Create a Revocation Certificate

   sop revoke-key [--no-armor]
       [--with-key-password=PASSWORD...]

   *  Standard Input: KEYS (Section 6.3)

   *  Standard Output: CERTS (Section 6.2)

   Generate a revocation certificate for each Transferable Secret Key
   found.  See Section 10 of [I-D.ietf-openpgp-crypto-refresh-10] for a
   discussion of common forms of revocation certificate.

   Example:

   $ sop revoke-key < alice.key > alice-revoked.pgp
   $

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   sop extract-cert [--no-armor]

   *  Standard Input: KEYS (Section 6.3)

   *  Standard Output: CERTS (Section 6.2)

   The output should contain one OpenPGP certificate in CERTS per
   OpenPGP Transferable Secret Key found in KEYS.  There is no guarantee
   what order the CERTS will be in.

   sop extract-cert SHOULD work even if any of the keys in KEYS is
   password-protected.

   Example:

   $ sop extract-cert < alice.sec > alice.pgp
   $ head -n1 < alice.pgp
   -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
   $

4.3.  Messaging Subcommands

   The subcommands in this section handle OpenPGP messages: encrypting,
   decrypting, signing, and verifying.

4.3.1.  sign: Create Detached Signatures

   sop sign [--no-armor] [--micalg-out=MICALG]
        [--with-key-password=PASSWORD...]
        [--as={binary|text}] [--] KEYS [KEYS...]

   *  Standard Input: DATA (Section 6.11)

   *  Standard Output: SIGNATURES (Section 6.6)

   Exactly one signature will be made by each key in the supplied KEYS
   arguments.

   --as defaults to binary.  If --as=text and the input DATA is not
   valid UTF-8 (Section 10.7), sop sign fails with EXPECTED_TEXT.

   --as=binary SHOULD result in OpenPGP signatures of type 0x00
   ("Signature of a binary document"). --as=text SHOULD result in
   OpenPGP signatures of type 0x01 ("Signature of a canonical text
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   When generating PGP/MIME messages ([RFC3156]), it is useful to know
   what digest algorithm was used for the generated signature.  When --
   micalg-out is supplied, sop sign emits the digest algorithm used to
   the specified MICALG file in a way that can be used to populate the
   micalg parameter for the Content-Type (see Section 6.8).  If the
   specified MICALG file already exists in the filesystem, sop sign will
   fail with OUTPUT_EXISTS.  When --micalg-out is supplied, the DATA on
   standard input should already be in canonical text form (7-bit clean,
   CRLF line endings, no trailing whitespace), as specified in Section 3
   of [RFC3156].  If the incoming DATA does not already meet these
   requirements, sop sign will fail with EXPECTED_TEXT, regardless of
   any argument supplied for --as.

   When signing with multiple keys, sop sign SHOULD use the same digest
   algorithm for every signature generated in a single run, unless there
   is some internal constraint on the KEYS objects.  If --micalg-out is
   requested, and multiple incompatibly-constrained KEYS objects are
   supplied, sop sign MUST emit the empty string to the designated
   MICALG.

   If the signing key material in any key in the KEYS objects is
   password-protected, sop sign SHOULD try all supplied --with-key-
   password options to unlock the key material until it finds one that
   enables the use of the key for signing.  If none of the PASSWORD
   options unlock the key (or if no such option is supplied), sop sign
   will fail with KEY_IS_PROTECTED.  Note that PASSWORD is an indirect
   data type from which the actual password is acquired (Section 6).
   Note also the guidance for retrying variants of a non-human-readable
   password in Section 10.8.2.

   If any key in the KEYS objects is not capable of producing a
   signature, sop sign will fail with KEY_CANNOT_SIGN.

   sop sign MUST NOT produce any extra signatures beyond those from KEYS
   objects supplied on the command line.

   Example:

   $ sop sign --as=text alice.sec < message.txt > message.txt.asc
   $ head -n1 < message.txt.asc
   -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
   $

4.3.2.  verify: Verify Detached Signatures

   sop verify [--not-before=DATE] [--not-after=DATE]
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   *  Standard Input: DATA (Section 6.11)

   *  Standard Output: VERIFICATIONS (Section 6.10)

   --not-before and --not-after indicate that signatures with dates
   outside certain range MUST NOT be considered valid.

   --not-before defaults to the beginning of time.  Accepts the special
   value - to indicate the beginning of time (i.e., no lower boundary).

   --not-after defaults to the current system time (now).  Accepts the
   special value - to indicate the end of time (i.e., no upper
   boundary).

   sop verify only returns OK if at least one certificate included in
   any CERTS object made a valid signature in the time window specified
   over the DATA supplied.

   For details about the valid signatures, the user MUST inspect the
   VERIFICATIONS output.

   If no CERTS are supplied, sop verify fails with MISSING_ARG.

   If no valid signatures are found, sop verify fails with NO_SIGNATURE.

   See Section 12.1 for more details about signature verification.

   Example:

   (In this example, we see signature verification succeed first, and
   then fail on a modified version of the message.)

$ sop verify message.txt.asc alice.pgp < message.txt
2019-10-29T18:36:45Z EB85BB5FA33A75E15E944E63F231550C4F47E38E EB85BB5FA33A75E15E944E63F231550C4F47E38E mode:text signed by alice.pgp
$ echo $?
0
$ tr a-z A-Z < message.txt | sop verify message.txt.asc alice.pgp
$ echo $?
3
$

   The verify subcommand and all of its options are part of the sopv
   subset (see Section 3) starting at sopv version 1.0.

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   sop encrypt [--as={binary|text}]
       [--no-armor]
       [--with-password=PASSWORD...]
       [--sign-with=KEYS...]
       [--with-key-password=PASSWORD...]
       [--profile=PROFILE]
       [--session-key-out=SESSIONKEY]
       [--] [CERTS...]

   *  Standard Input: DATA (Section 6.11)

   *  Standard Output: CIPHERTEXT (Section 6.4)

   --as defaults to binary.  The setting of --as corresponds to the one
   octet format field found in the Literal Data packet at the core of
   the output CIPHERTEXT.  If --as is set to binary, the octet is b
   (0x62).  If it is text, the format octet is u (0x75).

   --with-password enables symmetric encryption (and can be used
   multiple times if multiple passwords are desired).

   --sign-with creates exactly one signature by for each secret key
   found in the supplied KEYS object (this can also be used multiple
   times if signatures from keys found in separaate files are desired).
   If any key in any supplied KEYS object is not capable of producing a
   signature, sop sign will fail with KEY_CANNOT_SIGN.  If any signing
   key material in any supplied KEYS object is password-protected, sop
   encrypt SHOULD try all supplied --with-key-password options to unlock
   the key material until it finds one that enables the use of the key
   for signing.  If none of the --with-key-password=PASSWORD options can
   unlock any locked signing key material (or if no such option is
   supplied), sop encrypt will fail with KEY_IS_PROTECTED.  All
   signatures made must be placed inside the encryption produced by sop
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   Note that both --with-password and --with-key-password supply
   PASSWORD arguments, but they do so in different contexts which are
   not interchangeable.  A PASSWORD supplied for symmetric encryption
   (--with-password) MUST NOT be used to try to unlock a signing key (--
   with-key-password) and a PASSWORD supplied to unlock a signing key
   MUST NOT be used to symmetrically encrypt the message.  Regardless of
   context, each PASSWORD argument is presented as an indirect data type
   from which the actual password is acquired (Section 6).  If sop
   encrypt encounters a password which is not a valid UTF-8 string
   (Section 10.7), or is otherwise not robust in its representation to
   humans, it fails with PASSWORD_NOT_HUMAN_READABLE.  If sop encrypt
   sees trailing whitespace at the end of a password, it will trim the
   trailing whitespace before using the password.  See Section 10.8 for
   more discussion about passwords.

   If --as is set to binary, then --sign-with will sign as a binary
   document (OpenPGP signature type 0x00).

   If --as is set to text, then --sign-with will sign as a canonical
   text document (OpenPGP signature type 0x01).  In this case, if the
   input DATA is not valid UTF-8 (Section 10.7), sop encrypt fails with
   EXPECTED_TEXT.

   If --sign-with is supplied for input DATA that is not valid UTF-8,
   sop encrypt MAY sign as a binary document (OpenPGP signature type
   0x00).

   sop encrypt MUST NOT produce any extra signatures beyond those from
   KEYS objects identified by --sign-with.

   The resulting CIPHERTEXT should be decryptable by the secret keys
   corresponding to every certificate included in all CERTS, as well as
   each password given with --with-password.

   If no CERTS or --with-password options are present, sop encrypt fails
   with MISSING_ARG.

   If at least one of the identified certificates requires encryption to
   an unsupported asymmetric algorithm, sop encrypt fails with
   UNSUPPORTED_ASYMMETRIC_ALGO.

   If at least one of the identified certificates is not encryption-
   capable (e.g., revoked, expired, no encryption-capable flags on
   primary key and valid subkeys), sop encrypt fails with
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   If the --profile argument is supplied and the indicated PROFILE is
   not supported by the implementation, sop will fail with
   UNSUPPORTED_PROFILE.  The use of a profile for this subcommand allows
   an implementation faced with parametric or algorithmic choices to
   make a decision coarsely guided by the operator.  For example, when
   encrypting with a password, there is no knowledge about the
   capabilities of the recipient, and an implementation may prefer
   cryptographically modern algorithms, or it may prefer more broad
   compatibility.  In the event that a known recipient (i.e., one of the
   CERTS) explicitly indicates a lack of support for one of the features
   preferred by the indicated profile, the implementation SHOULD conform
   to the recipient's advertised capabilities where possible.

   If --session-key-out argument is supplied, the session key generated
   for this encrypted will be written to the indicated location.  This
   can be useful, for example, when Alice encrypts a message to Bob, but
   also wants to retain the ability to read it without having any of her
   own secret key material available (see Section 9.1 of
   [I-D.ietf-lamps-e2e-mail-guidance-11]).

   If sop encrypt fails for any reason, it emits no CIPHERTEXT.

   Example:

   (In this example, bob.bin is a file containing Bob's binary-formatted
   OpenPGP certificate.  Alice is encrypting a message to both herself
   and Bob.)

$ sop encrypt --as=text --sign-with=alice.key alice.asc bob.bin < message.eml > encrypted.asc
$ head -n1 encrypted.asc
-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
$

4.3.4.  decrypt: Decrypt a Message

   sop decrypt [--session-key-out=SESSIONKEY]
       [--with-session-key=SESSIONKEY...]
       [--with-password=PASSWORD...]
       [--with-key-password=PASSWORD...]
       [--verifications-out=VERIFICATIONS
        [--verify-with=CERTS...]
        [--verify-not-before=DATE]
        [--verify-not-after=DATE] ]
       [--] [KEYS...]

   *  Standard Input: CIPHERTEXT (Section 6.4)

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   The caller can ask sop for the session key discovered during
   decryption by supplying the --session-key-out option.  If the
   specified file already exists in the filesystem, sop decrypt will
   fail with OUTPUT_EXISTS.  When decryption is successful, sop decrypt
   writes the discovered session key to the specified file.

   --with-session-key enables decryption of the CIPHERTEXT using the
   session key directly against the SEIPD packet.  This option can be
   used multiple times if several possible session keys should be tried.
   SESSIONKEY is an indirect data type from which the actual sessionkey
   value is acquired (Section 6).

   --with-password enables decryption based on any SKESK (Section 5.3 of
   [I-D.ietf-openpgp-crypto-refresh-10]) packets in the CIPHERTEXT.
   This option can be used multiple times if the user wants to try more
   than one password.

   --with-key-password lets the user use password-protected (locked)
   secret key material.  If the decryption-capable secret key material
   in any key in the KEYS objects is password-protected, sop decrypt
   SHOULD try all supplied --with-key-password options to unlock the key
   material until it finds one that enables the use of the key for
   decryption.  If none of the --with-key-password options unlock the
   key (or if no such option is supplied), and the message cannot be
   decrypted with any other KEYS, --with-session-key, or --with-password
   options, sop decrypt will fail with KEY_IS_PROTECTED.

   Note that the two kinds of PASSWORD options are for different
   domains: --with-password is for unlocking an SKESK, and --with-key-
   password is for unlocking secret key material in KEYS. sop decrypt
   SHOULD NOT apply the --with-key-password argument to any SKESK, or
   the --with-password argument to any KEYS.

   Each PASSWORD argument is an indirect data type from which the actual
   password is acquired (Section 6).  If sop decrypt tries and fails to
   use a password supplied by a PASSWORD, and it observes that there is
   trailing UTF-8 whitespace at the end of the password, it will retry
   with the trailing whitespace stripped.  See Section 10.8.2 for more
   discussion about consuming password-protected key material.

   --verifications-out produces signature verification status to the
   designated file.  If the designated file already exists in the
   filesystem, sop decrypt will fail with OUTPUT_EXISTS.

   The return code of sop decrypt is not affected by the results of
   signature verification.  The caller MUST check the returned
   VERIFICATIONS to confirm signature status.  An empty VERIFICATIONS
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   --verify-with identifies a set of certificates whose signatures would
   be acceptable for signatures over this message.

   If the caller is interested in signature verification, both --
   verifications-out and at least one --verify-with must be supplied.
   If only one of these options is supplied, sop decrypt fails with
   INCOMPLETE_VERIFICATION.

   --verify-not-before and --verify-not-after provide a date range for
   acceptable signatures, by analogy with the options for sop verify
   (see Section 4.3.2).  They should only be supplied when doing
   signature verification.

   See Section 12.1 for more details about signature verification.

   If no KEYS or --with-password or --with-session-key options are
   present, sop decrypt fails with MISSING_ARG.

   If unable to decrypt, sop decrypt fails with CANNOT_DECRYPT.

   sop decrypt only emits cleartext to Standard Output that was
   successfully decrypted.

   Example:

   (In this example, Alice stashes and re-uses the session key of an
   encrypted message.)

$ sop decrypt --session-key-out=session.key alice.sec < ciphertext.asc > cleartext.out
$ ls -l ciphertext.asc cleartext.out
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user   321 Oct 28 01:34 ciphertext.asc
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user   285 Oct 28 01:34 cleartext.out
$ sop decrypt --with-session-key=session.key < ciphertext.asc > cleartext2.out
$ diff cleartext.out cleartext2.out
$

4.3.4.1.  Historic Options for sop decrypt

   The sop decrypt option --verifications-out used to be named --verify-
   out.  An implementation SHOULD accept either form of this option, and
   SHOULD produce a deprecation warning to standard error if the old
   form is used.

4.3.5.  inline-detach: Split Signatures from an Inline-Signed Message

   sop inline-detach [--no-armor] --signatures-out=SIGNATURES

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   *  Standard Output: DATA (the message without any signatures)

   In some contexts, the user may expect an inline-signed message of
   some form or another (INLINESIGNED, see Section 6.5) rather than a
   message and its detached signature. sop inline-detach takes such an
   inline-signed message on standard input, and splits it into:

   *  the potentially signed material on standard output, and

   *  a detached signature block to the destination identified by --
      signatures-out

   Note that no cryptographic verification of the signatures is done by
   this subcommand.  Once the inline-signed message is separated,
   verification of the detached signature can be done with sop verify.

   If no --signatures-out is supplied, sop inline-detach fails with
   MISSING_ARG.

   Note that there may be more than one Signature packet in an inline-
   signed message.  All signatures found in the inline-signed message
   will be emitted to the --signatures-out destination.

   If the inline-signed message uses the Cleartext Signature Framework,
   it may be dash-escaped (see Section 7.1 of [RFC4880]).  The output of
   sop detach-inband-signature-and-message will have any dash-escaping
   removed.

   If the input is not an INLINESIGNED message, sop inline-detach fails
   with BAD_DATA.  If the input contains more than one object that could
   be interpreted as an INLINESIGNED message, sop inline-detach also
   fails with BAD_DATA.  A sop implementation MAY accept (and discard)
   leading and trailing data when the incoming INLINESIGNED message uses
   the Cleartext Signature Framework.

   If the file designated by --signatures-out already exists in the
   filesystem, sop detach-inband-signature-and-message will fail with
   OUTPUT_EXISTS.

   Note that --no-armor here governs the data written to the --
   signatures-out destination.  Standard output is always the raw
   message, not an OpenPGP packet.

   Example:

   $ sop inline-detach --signatures-out=Release.pgp < InRelease >Release
   $ sop verify Release.pgp archive-keyring.pgp < Release
   $



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4.3.6.  inline-verify: Verify an Inline-Signed Message

   sop inline-verify [--not-before=DATE] [--not-after=DATE]
       [--verifications-out=VERIFICATIONS]
       [--] CERTS [CERTS...]

   *  Standard Input: INLINESIGNED (Section 6.5)

   *  Standard Output: DATA (Section 6.11)

   This command is similar to sop verify (Section 4.3.2) except that it
   takes an INLINESIGNED message (see Section 6.5) and produces the
   message body (without signatures) on standard output.  It is also
   similar to sop inline-detach (Section 4.3.5) except that it actually
   performs signature verification.

   --not-before and --not-after indicate that signatures with dates
   outside certain range MUST NOT be considered valid.

   --not-before defaults to the beginning of time.  Accepts the special
   value - to indicate the beginning of time (i.e., no lower boundary).

   --not-after defaults to the current system time (now).  Accepts the
   special value - to indicate the end of time (i.e., no upper
   boundary).

   sop inline-verify only returns OK if INLINESIGNED contains at least
   one valid signature made during the time window specified by a
   certificate included in any CERTS object.

   For details about the valid signatures, the user MUST inspect the
   VERIFICATIONS output.

   If no CERTS are supplied, sop inline-verify fails with MISSING_ARG.

   If no valid signatures are found, sop inline-verify fails with
   NO_SIGNATURE and emits nothing on standard output.

   See Section 12.1 for more details about signature verification.

   Example:

   (In this example, we see signature verification succeed first, and
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   $ sop inline-verify -- alice.pgp < message.txt
   Hello, world!
   $ echo $?
   0
   $ sed s/Hello/Goodbye/ < message.txt | sop inline-verify -- alice.pgp
   $ echo $?
   3
   $

   The inline-verify subcommand and all of its options are part of the
   sopv subset (see Section 3) starting at sopv version 1.0.

4.3.7.  inline-sign: Create an Inline-Signed Message

   sop inline-sign [--no-armor]
        [--with-key-password=PASSWORD...]
        [--as={binary|text|clearsigned}]
        [--] KEYS [KEYS...]

   *  Standard Input: DATA (Section 6.11)

   *  Standard Output: INLINESIGNED (Section 6.5)

   Exactly one signature will be made by each key in the supplied KEYS
   arguments.

   The generated output stream will be an inline-signed message, by
   default producing an OpenPGP "Signed Message" packet stream.

   --as defaults to binary.  If --as= is set to either text or
   clearsigned, and the input DATA is not valid UTF-8 (Section 10.7),
   sop inline-sign fails with EXPECTED_TEXT.

   --as=binary SHOULD result in OpenPGP signatures of type 0x00
   ("Signature of a binary document"). --as=text SHOULD result in an
   OpenPGP signature of type 0x01 ("Signature of a canonical text
   document").  See Section 5.2.1 of [RFC4880] for more details.
   --as=clearsigned SHOULD behave the same way as --as=text except that
   it produces an output stream using the Cleartext Signature Framework
   (see Section 7 of [RFC4880] and Section 10.5).

   If both --no-armor and --as=clearsigned are supplied, sop inline-sign
   fails with INCOMPATIBLE_OPTIONS.

   If the signing key material in any key in the KEYS objects is
   password-protected, sop inline-sign SHOULD try all supplied --with-
   key-password options to unlock the key material until it finds one
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   options unlock the key (or if no such option is supplied), sop
   inline-sign will fail with KEY_IS_PROTECTED.  Note that PASSWORD is
   an indirect data type from which the actual password is acquired
   (Section 6).  Note also the guidance for retrying variants of a non-
   human-readable password in Section 10.8.2.

   If any key in the KEYS objects is not capable of producing a
   signature, sop inline-sign will fail with KEY_CANNOT_SIGN.

   sop inline-sign MUST NOT produce any extra signatures beyond those
   from KEYS objects supplied on the command line.

   Example:

$ sop inline-sign --as=clearsigned alice.sec < message.txt > message-signed.txt
$ head -n5 < message-signed.txt
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA256

This is the message.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
$

4.4.  Transport Subcommands

   The commands in this section handle manipulating OpenPGP objects for
   transport: armoring and dearmoring for 7-bit cleanness and
   compactness, respectively.

4.4.1.  armor: Convert Binary to ASCII

   sop armor

   *  Standard Input: OpenPGP material (SIGNATURES, KEYS, CERTS,
      CIPHERTEXT, or INLINESIGNED)

   *  Standard Output: the same material with ASCII-armoring added, if
      not already present

   sop armor inspects the input and chooses the label appropriately,
   based on the OpenPGP packets encountered.  If the type of the first
   OpenPGP packet is:

   *  0x05 (Secret-Key), the packet stream should be parsed as a KEYS
      input (with Armor Header BEGIN PGP PRIVATE KEY BLOCK).

   *  0x06 (Public-Key), the packet stream should be parsed as a CERTS
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   *  0x01 (Public-key Encrypted Session Key) or 0x03 (Symmetric-key
      Encrypted Session Key), the packet stream should be parsed as a
      CIPHERTEXT input (with Armor Header BEGIN PGP MESSAGE).

   *  0x04 (One-Pass Signature), the packet stream should be parsed as
      an INLINESIGNED input (with Armor Header BEGIN PGP MESSAGE).

   *  0x02 (Signature), the packet stream may be either a SIGNATURES
      input or an INLINESIGNED input.  If the packet stream contains
      only Signature packets, it should be parsed as aSIGNATURES input
      (with Armor Header BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE).  If it contains any
      packet other than a Signature packet, it should be parsed as an
      INLINESIGNED input (with Armor Header BEGIN PGP MESSAGE).

   If the input packet stream does not match any expected sequence of
   packet types, sop armor fails with BAD_DATA.

   Since sop armor accepts ASCII-armored input as well as binary input,
   this operation is idempotent on well-structured data.  A caller can
   use this subcommand blindly to ensure that any well-formed OpenPGP
   packet stream is 7-bit clean.

   FIXME: what to do if the input is a CSF INLINESIGNED message?  Three
   choices:

   *  Leave it untouched -- this violates the claim about blindly
      ensuring 7-bit clean, since UTF-8-encoded message text is not
      necessarily 7-bit clean.

   *  Convert to ASCII-armored INLINESIGNED -- this requires synthesis
      of OPS packet (from signatures block) and Literal Data packet
      (from the message body).

   *  Raise a specific error.

   Example:

   $ sop armor < bob.bin > bob.pgp
   $ head -n1 bob.pgp
   -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
   $

4.4.1.1.  Historic Options for sop armor

   sop armor used to be specified as having a --label option, with an
   argument that took one of the following values: auto, sig, key, cert,
   or message, which allowed the user to specify the label used in the
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   The default value for --label was auto, which matches the currently
   specified behavior.  This option is now deprecated, as it offers no
   useful functionality.

4.4.2.  dearmor: Convert ASCII to Binary

   sop dearmor

   *  Standard Input: OpenPGP material (SIGNATURES, KEYS, CERTS,
      CIPHERTEXT, or INLINESIGNED)

   *  Standard Output: the same material with any ASCII-armoring removed

   If the input packet stream does not match any of the expected
   sequence of packet types, sop dearmor fails with BAD_DATA.  See also
   Section 10.4.

   Since sop dearmor accepts binary-formatted input as well as ASCII-
   armored input, this operation is idempotent on well-structured data.
   A caller can use this subcommand blindly ensure that any well-formed
   OpenPGP packet stream is in its standard binary representation.

   FIXME: what to do if the input is a CSF INLINESIGNED?  Three choices:

   *  Leave it untouched -- output data is not really in binary format.

   *  Convert to binary-format INLINESIGNED -- this requires synthesis
      of OPS packet (from CSF Hash header) and Literal Data packet (from
      the message body).

   *  Raise a specific error.

   Example:

   $ sop dearmor < message.txt.asc > message.txt.sig
   $

5.  Input String Types

   Some material is passed to sop directly as a string on the command
   line.

5.1.  DATE

   An ISO-8601 formatted timestamp with time zone, or the special value
   now to indicate the current system time.

   Examples:



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   *  now

   *  2019-10-29T12:11:04+00:00

   *  2019-10-24T23:48:29Z

   *  20191029T121104Z

   In some cases where used to specify lower and upper boundaries, a
   DATE value can be set to - to indicate "no time limit".

   A flexible implementation of sop MAY accept date inputs in other
   unambiguous forms.

   Note that whenever sop emits a timestamp (e.g., in Section 6.10) it
   MUST produce only a UTC-based ISO-8601 compliant representation with
   a resolution of one second, using the literal Z suffix to indicate
   timezone.

5.2.  USERID

   This is an arbitrary UTF-8 string (Section 10.7).  By convention,
   most User IDs are of the form Display Name
   <email.address@example.com>, but they do not need to be.

   By internal policy, an implementation MAY reject a USERID if there
   are certain UTF-8 strings it declines to work with as a User ID.  For
   example, an implementation may reject the empty string, or a string
   with characters in it that it considers problematic.  Of course,
   refusing to create a particular User ID does not prevent an
   implementation from encountering such a User ID in its input.

5.3.  SUBCOMMAND

   This is an ASCII string that matches the name of one of the
   subcommands listed in Section 4.

5.4.  PROFILE

   Some sop subcommands can accept a --profile option, which takes as an
   argument the name of a profile.

   A profile name is a UTF-8 string that has no whitespace in it.

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   Similar to OpenPGP Notation names, profile names are divided into two
   namespaces: the IETF namespace and the user namespace.  A profile
   name in the user namespace ends with the @ character (0x40) followed
   by a DNS domain name.  A profile name in the IETF namespace does not
   have an @ character.

   A profile name in the user space is owned and controlled by the owner
   of the domain in the suffix.  A sop implementation that implements a
   user profile but does not own the domain in question SHOULD hew as
   closely as possible to the semantics described by the owner of the
   domain.

   A profile name in the IETF namespace that begins with the string rfc
   should have semantics that hew as closely as possible to the
   referenced RFC.  Similarly, a profile name in the IETF namespace that
   begins with the string draft- should have semantics that hew as
   closely as possible to the referenced Internet Draft.

   The reserved profile name default in the IETF namespace simply refers
   to the implementation's default choices.  It is not mandatory to name
   the default profile default.  The first profile listed in the list-
   profiles output is considered the default configuration, as specified
   in Section 6.12.

   Note that this profile mechanism is intended to provide a limited way
   for an implementation to select among a small set of options that the
   implementer has vetted and is satisfied with.  It is not intended to
   provide an arbitrary channel for complex configuration, and a sop
   implementation MUST NOT use it in that way.

6.  Input/Output Indirect Types

   Some material is passed to sop indirectly, typically by referring to
   a filename containing the data in question.  This type of data may
   also be passed to sop on Standard Input, or delivered by sop to
   Standard Output.

   If any input data is specified explicitly to be read from a file that
   does not exist, sop will fail with MISSING_INPUT.

   If any input data does not meet the requirements described below, sop
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6.1.  Special Designators for Indirect Types

   An indirect argument or parameter that starts with "@" (COMMERCIAL
   AT, U+0040) is not treated as a filename, but is reserved for special
   handling, based on the prefix that follows the @. We describe two of
   those prefixes (@ENV: and @FD:) here.  A sop implementation that
   receives such a special designator but does not know how to handle a
   given prefix in that context MUST fail with
   UNSUPPORTED_SPECIAL_PREFIX.

   See Section 10.9 for more details about safe handling of these
   special designators.

6.1.1.  @ENV: Special Designator for Environment Variable

   If the filename for any indirect material used as input has the
   special form @ENV:xxx, then contents of environment variable $xxx is
   used instead of looking in the filesystem. @ENV is for input only: if
   the prefix @ENV: is used for any output argument, sop fails with
   UNSUPPORTED_SPECIAL_PREFIX.

   The sopv subset (see Section 3) MUST be capable of supporting the
   @ENV special designator for all relevant inputs starting at sopv
   version 1.0.

6.1.2.  @FD: Special Designator for File Descriptor

   If the filename for any indirect material used as either input or
   output has the special form @FD:nnn where nnn is a decimal integer,
   then the associated data is read from file descriptor nnn.

   On platforms which support file descriptors, the sopv subset (see
   Section 3) MUST be capable of supporting the @FD special designator
   for all relevant inputs and outputs starting at sopv version 1.0.

6.2.  CERTS

   One or more OpenPGP certificates (Section 10.1 of
   [I-D.ietf-openpgp-crypto-refresh-10]), aka "Transferable Public Key".
   May be armored (see Section 10.4).

   Although some existing workflows may prefer to use one CERTS object
   with multiple certificates in it (a "keyring"), supplying exactly one
   certificate per CERTS input will make error reporting clearer and
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   If any CERTS input contains secret key material, sop MUST fail with
   BAD_DATA.  This strictness is intended to keep the consumer of the
   sop interface clear about what material they are dealing with in what
   locations.  This should reduce the consumer's risk of accidentally
   exposing secret key materal where they meant to expose a CERTS
   object.

6.3.  KEYS

   One or more OpenPGP Transferable Secret Keys (Section 10.2 of
   [I-D.ietf-openpgp-crypto-refresh-10]).  May be armored (see
   Section 10.4).

   Secret key material is often locked with a password to ensure that it
   cannot be simply copied and reused.  If any secret key material is
   locked with a password and no --with-key-password option is supplied,
   sop may fail with error KEY_IS_PROTECTED.  However, when a cleartext
   secret key (that is, one not locked with a password) is available,
   sop should always be able to use it, whether a --with-key-password
   option is supplied or not.

   Although some existing workflows may prefer to use one KEYS object
   with multiple keys in it (a "secret keyring"), supplying exactly one
   key per KEYS input will make error reporting clearer and easier.

6.4.  CIPHERTEXT

   sop accepts only a restricted subset of the arbitrarily-nested
   grammar allowed by the OpenPGP Messages definition (Section 10.3 of
   [I-D.ietf-openpgp-crypto-refresh-10]).

   In particular, it accepts and generates only:

   An OpenPGP message, consisting of a sequence of PKESKs (Section 5.1
   of [I-D.ietf-openpgp-crypto-refresh-10]) and SKESKs (Section 5.3 of
   [I-D.ietf-openpgp-crypto-refresh-10]), followed by one SEIPD
   (Section 5.13 of [I-D.ietf-openpgp-crypto-refresh-10]).

   The SEIPD can decrypt into one of two things:

   *  "Maybe Signed Data" (see below), or

   *  Compressed data packet that contains "Maybe Signed Data"

   "Maybe Signed Data" is a sequence of:

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   *  zero or more signature packets, followed by

   *  one Literal data packet, followed by

   *  N signature packets (corresponding to the outer one-pass
      signatures packets)

   FIXME: does any tool do compression inside signing?  Do we need to
   handle that?

   May be armored (see Section 10.4).

6.5.  INLINESIGNED

   An inline-signed message may take any one of three different forms:

   *  A binary sequence of OpenPGP packets that matches a subset of the
      "Signed Message" element in the grammar in Section 10.3 of
      [I-D.ietf-openpgp-crypto-refresh-10]

   *  The same sequence of packets, but ASCII-armored (see Section 10.4)

   *  A message using the Cleartext Signature Framework described in
      Section 7 of [I-D.ietf-openpgp-crypto-refresh-10]

   The subset of the packet grammar expected in the first two forms
   consists of either:

   *  a series of Signature packets followed by a Literal Data packet

   *  a series of One-Pass Signature (OPS) packets, followed by one
      Literal Data packet, followed by an equal number of Signature
      packets corresponding to the OPS packets

   When the message is in the third form (Cleartext Signature
   Framework), it has the following properties:

   *  The stream SHOULD consist solely of UTF-8 text

   *  Every Signature packet found in the stream SHOULD have Signature
      Type 0x01 (canonical text document).

   *  It SHOULD NOT contain leading text (before the -----BEGIN PGP
      SIGNED MESSAGE----- cleartext header) or trailing text (after the
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   While some OpenPGP implementations MAY produce more complicated
   inline signed messages, a sop implementation SHOULD limit itself to
   producing these straightforward forms.

6.6.  SIGNATURES

   One or more OpenPGP Signature packets.  May be armored (see
   Section 10.4).

6.7.  SESSIONKEY

   This documentation uses the GnuPG defacto ASCII representation:

   ALGONUM:HEXKEY

   where ALGONUM is the decimal value associated with the OpenPGP
   Symmetric Key Algorithms (Section 9.3 of
   [I-D.ietf-openpgp-crypto-refresh-10]) and HEXKEY is the hexadecimal
   representation of the binary key.

   Example AES-256 session key:

   9:FCA4BEAF687F48059CACC14FB019125CD57392BAB7037C707835925CBF9F7BCD

   A sop implementation SHOULD produce session key data in this format.
   When consuming such a session key, sop SHOULD be willing to accept
   either upper or lower case hexadecimal digits, and to gracefully
   ignore any trailing whitespace.

6.8.  MICALG

   This output-only type indicates the cryptographic digest used when
   making a signature.  It is useful specifically when generating signed
   PGP/MIME objects, which want a micalg= parameter for the multipart/
   signed content type as described in Section 5 of [RFC3156].

   It will typically be a string like pgp-sha512, but in some situations
   (multiple signatures using different digests) it will be the empty
   string.  If the user of sop is assembling a PGP/MIME signed object,
   and the MICALG output is the empty string, the user should omit the
   micalg= parameter entirely.

6.9.  PASSWORD

   This input-only is expected to be a UTF-8 string (Section 10.7), but
   for sop decrypt, any bytestring that the user supplies will be
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   See also Section 10.8 for more discussion.

6.10.  VERIFICATIONS

   This output-only type consists of one line per successful signature
   verification.  Each line has three structured fields delimited by a
   single space, followed by arbitrary text to the end of the line that
   forms a message describing the verification.

   *  ISO-8601 UTC datestamp of the signature, to one second precision,
      using the Z suffix

   *  Fingerprint of the signing key (may be a subkey)

   *  Fingerprint of primary key of signing certificate (if signed by
      primary key, same as the previous field)

   *  a string describing the mode of the signature, either mode:text or
      mode:binary

   *  message describing the verification (free form)

   Note that while Section 5.1 permits a sop implementation to accept
   other unambiguous date representations, its date output here MUST be
   a strict ISO-8601 UTC date timestamp.  In particular:

   *  the date and time fields MUST be separated by T, not by
      whitespace, since whitespace is used as a delimiter

   *  the time MUST be emitted in UTC, with the explicit suffix Z

   *  the time MUST be emitted with one-second precision

   Example:

2019-10-24T23:48:29Z C90E6D36200A1B922A1509E77618196529AE5FF8 C4BC2DDB38CCE96485EBE9C2F20691179038E5C6 mode:binary certificate from dkg.asc

6.11.  DATA

   Cleartext, arbitrary data.  This is either a bytestream or UTF-8
   text.

   It MUST only be UTF-8 text in the case of input supplied to sop sign
   --as=text or sop encrypt --as=text.  If sop receives DATA containing
   non-UTF-8 octets in this case, it will fail (see Section 10.7) with
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6.12.  PROFILELIST

   This output-only type consists of simple UTF-8 textual output, with
   one line per profile.  Each line consists of the profile name
   optionally followed by a colon (0x31), a space (0x20), and a brief
   human-readable description of the intended semantics of the profile.
   Each line may be at most 1000 bytes, and no more than 4 profiles may
   be listed.

   These limits are intended to force sop implementers to make hard
   decisions and to keep things simple.

   The first profile MAY be explicitly named default.  If it is not
   named default, then default is an alias for the first profile listed.
   No profile after the first listed may be named default.

   See Section 5.4 for more discussion about the namespace and intended
   semantics of each profile.

7.  Failure Modes

   sop return codes have both mnemonics and numeric values.

   When sop succeeds, it will return 0 (OK) and emit nothing to Standard
   Error.  When sop fails, it fails with a non-zero return code, and
   emits one or more warning messages on Standard Error.  Known return
   codes include:

   +=======+=============================+============================+
   | Value | Mnemonic                    | Meaning                    |
   +=======+=============================+============================+
   |     0 | OK                          | Success                    |
   +-------+-----------------------------+----------------------------+
   |     3 | NO_SIGNATURE                | No acceptable signatures   |
   |       |                             | found (sop verify)         |
   +-------+-----------------------------+----------------------------+
   |    13 | UNSUPPORTED_ASYMMETRIC_ALGO | Asymmetric algorithm       |
   |       |                             | unsupported (sop encrypt)  |
   +-------+-----------------------------+----------------------------+
   |    17 | CERT_CANNOT_ENCRYPT         | Certificate not            |
   |       |                             | encryption-capable (e.g.,  |
   |       |                             | expired, revoked,          |
   |       |                             | unacceptable usage flags)  |
   |       |                             | (sop encrypt)              |
   +-------+-----------------------------+----------------------------+
   |    19 | MISSING_ARG                 | Missing required argument  |
   +-------+-----------------------------+----------------------------+
   |    23 | INCOMPLETE_VERIFICATION     | Incomplete verification    |



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   |       |                             | instructions (sop decrypt) |
   +-------+-----------------------------+----------------------------+
   |    29 | CANNOT_DECRYPT              | Unable to decrypt (sop     |
   |       |                             | decrypt)                   |
   +-------+-----------------------------+----------------------------+
   |    31 | PASSWORD_NOT_HUMAN_READABLE | Non-UTF-8 or otherwise     |
   |       |                             | unreliable password (sop   |
   |       |                             | encrypt, sop generate-key) |
   +-------+-----------------------------+----------------------------+
   |    37 | UNSUPPORTED_OPTION          | Unsupported option         |
   +-------+-----------------------------+----------------------------+
   |    41 | BAD_DATA                    | Invalid data type (no      |
   |       |                             | secret key where KEYS      |
   |       |                             | expected, secret key where |
   |       |                             | CERTS expected, etc)       |
   +-------+-----------------------------+----------------------------+
   |    53 | EXPECTED_TEXT               | Non-text input where text  |
   |       |                             | expected                   |
   +-------+-----------------------------+----------------------------+
   |    59 | OUTPUT_EXISTS               | Output file already exists |
   +-------+-----------------------------+----------------------------+
   |    61 | MISSING_INPUT               | Input file does not exist  |
   +-------+-----------------------------+----------------------------+
   |    67 | KEY_IS_PROTECTED            | A KEYS input is password-  |
   |       |                             | protected (locked), and    |
   |       |                             | sop cannot unlock it with  |
   |       |                             | any of the --with-key-     |
   |       |                             | password (or --old-key-    |
   |       |                             | password) options          |
   +-------+-----------------------------+----------------------------+
   |    69 | UNSUPPORTED_SUBCOMMAND      | Unsupported subcommand     |
   +-------+-----------------------------+----------------------------+
   |    71 | UNSUPPORTED_SPECIAL_PREFIX  | An indirect parameter is a |
   |       |                             | special designator (it     |
   |       |                             | starts with @) but sop     |
   |       |                             | does not know how to       |
   |       |                             | handle the prefix          |
   +-------+-----------------------------+----------------------------+
   |    73 | AMBIGUOUS_INPUT             | A indirect input parameter |
   |       |                             | is a special designator    |
   |       |                             | (it starts with @), and a  |
   |       |                             | filename matching the      |
   |       |                             | designator is actually     |
   |       |                             | present                    |
   +-------+-----------------------------+----------------------------+
   |    79 | KEY_CANNOT_SIGN             | Key not signature-capable  |
   |       |                             | (e.g., expired, revoked,   |
   |       |                             | unacceptable usage flags)  |



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   |       |                             | (sop sign and sop encrypt  |
   |       |                             | with --sign-with)          |
   +-------+-----------------------------+----------------------------+
   |    83 | INCOMPATIBLE_OPTIONS        | Options were supplied that |
   |       |                             | are incompatible with each |
   |       |                             | other                      |
   +-------+-----------------------------+----------------------------+
   |    89 | UNSUPPORTED_PROFILE         | The requested profile is   |
   |       |                             | unsupported (sop generate- |
   |       |                             | key, sop encrypt), or the  |
   |       |                             | indicated subcommand does  |
   |       |                             | not accept profiles (sop   |
   |       |                             | list-profiles)             |
   +-------+-----------------------------+----------------------------+
   |    97 | NO_HARDWARE_KEY_FOUND       | The sop implementation     |
   |       |                             | supports some form of      |
   |       |                             | hardware-backed secret     |
   |       |                             | keys, but could not        |
   |       |                             | identify the hardware      |
   |       |                             | device (see Section 10.10) |
   +-------+-----------------------------+----------------------------+
   |   101 | HARDWARE_KEY_FAILURE        | The sop implementation     |
   |       |                             | tried to use a hardware-   |
   |       |                             | backed secret key, but the |
   |       |                             | cryptographic hardware     |
   |       |                             | refused the operation for  |
   |       |                             | some reason other than a   |
   |       |                             | bad PIN or password (see   |
   |       |                             | Section 10.10)             |
   +-------+-----------------------------+----------------------------+

                       Table 1: Error return codes

   If a sop implementation fails in some way not contemplated by this
   document, it MAY return any non-zero error code, not only those
   listed above.

8.  Known Implementations

   The following implementations are known at the time of this draft:

   +==========+=============================================================+===========+===========+
   |Project   |URL                                                          |cli name   |notes      |
   |name      |                                                             |           |           |
   +==========+=============================================================+===========+===========+
   |Sequoia   |https://gitlab.com/sequoia-pgp/sequoia-sop                   |sqop       |Implemented|
   |SOP       |                                                             |           |in Rust    |
   |          |                                                             |           |using the  |



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   |          |                                                             |           |sequoia-   |
   |          |                                                             |           |openpgp    |
   |          |                                                             |           |crate      |
   +----------+-------------------------------------------------------------+-----------+-----------+
   |gosop     |https://github.com/ProtonMail/gosop                          |gosop      |Implemented|
   |          |                                                             |           |in golang  |
   |          |                                                             |           |(Go) using |
   |          |                                                             |           |GOpenPGP   |
   +----------+-------------------------------------------------------------+-----------+-----------+
   |PGPainless|https://codeberg.org/PGPainless/pgpainless/src/branch/master/|pgpainless-|Implemented|
   |SOP       |pgpainless-sop                                               |cli        |in Java    |
   |          |                                                             |           |using      |
   |          |                                                             |           |PGPainless |
   +----------+-------------------------------------------------------------+-----------+-----------+
   |sopgpy    |https://gitlab.com/sequoia-pgp/openpgp-interoperability-test-|sopgpy     |Implemented|
   |          |suite/-/blob/main/glue/sopgpy                                |           |in Python  |
   |          |                                                             |           |using PGPy |
   +----------+-------------------------------------------------------------+-----------+-----------+
   |sop-      |https://github.com/openpgpjs/sop-openpgpjs                   |sop-openpgp|Implemented|
   |openpgp.js|                                                             |           |in         |
   |          |                                                             |           |JavaScript |
   |          |                                                             |           |using      |
   |          |                                                             |           |OpenPGP.js |
   +----------+-------------------------------------------------------------+-----------+-----------+
   |gpgme-sop |https://gitlab.com/sequoia-pgp/gpgme-sop                     |gpgme-sop  |A Rust     |
   |          |                                                             |           |wrapper    |
   |          |                                                             |           |around the |
   |          |                                                             |           |gpgme C    |
   |          |                                                             |           |library    |
   +----------+-------------------------------------------------------------+-----------+-----------+
   |RNP-sop   |https://gitlab.com/sequoia-pgp/rnp-sop                       |rnp-sop    |A Rust     |
   |          |                                                             |           |wrapper    |
   |          |                                                             |           |around the |
   |          |                                                             |           |librnp C   |
   |          |                                                             |           |library    |
   +----------+-------------------------------------------------------------+-----------+-----------+
   |dkg-sop   |https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/dkgpg.git/tree/tools/   |dkg-sop    |Implemented|
   |          |dkg-sop.cc                                                   |           |in C++     |
   |          |                                                             |           |using the  |
   |          |                                                             |           |LibTMCG    |
   |          |                                                             |           |library    |
   +----------+-------------------------------------------------------------+-----------+-----------+

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9.  Alternate Interfaces

   This draft primarily defines a command line interface, but future
   versions may try to outline a comparable idiomatic interface for C or
   some other widely-used programming language.

   Comparable idiomatic interfaces are already active in the wild for
   different programming languages, in particular:

   *  Rust: [RUST-SOP]

   *  Java: [SOP-JAVA]

   *  Python: [PYTHON-SOP]

   These programmatic interfaces are typically coupled with a wrapper
   that can automatically generate a command-line tool compatible with
   this draft.

   An implementation that uses one of these languages should target the
   corresponding idiomatic interface for ease of development and
   interoperability.

10.  Guidance for Implementers

   sop uses a few assumptions that implementers might want to consider.

10.1.  One OpenPGP Message at a Time

   sop is intended to be a simple tool that operates on one OpenPGP
   object at a time.  It should be composable, if you want to use it to
   deal with multiple OpenPGP objects.

   FIXME: discuss what this means for streaming.  The stdio interface
   doesn't necessarily imply streamed output.

10.2.  Simplified Subset of OpenPGP Message

   While the formal grammar for OpenPGP Message is arbitrarily nestable,
   sop constrains itself to what it sees as a single "layer" (see
   Section 6.4).

   This is a deliberate choice, because it is what most consumers
   expect.  Also, if an arbitrarily-nested structure is parsed with a
   recursive algorithm, this risks a denial of service vulnerability.
   sop intends to be implementable with a parser that defensively
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   Note that an implementation of sop decrypt MAY choose to handle more
   complex structures, but if it does, it should document the other
   structures it handles and why it chooses to do so.  We can use such
   documentation to improve future versions of this spec.

10.3.  Validate Signatures Only from Known Signers

   There are generally only a few signers who are relevant for a given
   OpenPGP message.  When verifying signatures, sop expects that the
   caller can identify those relevant signers ahead of time.

10.4.  OpenPGP Inputs can be either Binary or ASCII-armored

   OpenPGP material on input can be in either ASCII-armored or binary
   form.  This is a deliberate choice because there are typical
   scenarios where the program can't predict which form will appear.
   Expecting the caller of sop to detect the form and adjust accordingly
   seems both redundant and error-prone.

   The simple way to detect possible ASCII-armoring is to see whether
   the high bit of the first octet is set: Section 4.2 of [RFC4880]
   indicates that bit 7 is always one in the first octet of an OpenPGP
   packet.  In standard ASCII-armor, the first character is "-" (HYPHEN-
   MINUS, U+002D), so the high bit should be cleared.

   When considering an input as ASCII-armored OpenPGP material, sop MAY
   reject an input based on any of the following variations (see
   Section 6.2 of [RFC4880] for precise definitions):

   *  An unknown Armor Header Line

   *  Any text before the Armor Header Line

   *  Malformed lines in the Armor Headers section

   *  Any non-whitespace data after the Armor Tail

   *  Any Radix-64 encoded line with more than 76 characters

   *  Invalid characters in the Radix-64-encoded data

   *  An invalid Armor Checksum

   *  A mismatch between the Armor Header Line and the Armor Tail

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   For robustness, sop SHOULD be willing to ignore whitespace after the
   Armor Tail.

   For any plural data type (i.e.,SIGNATURES, CERTS, or KEYS), the
   unarmored form is trivially concatenatable with another object of the
   same type (e.g., with Unix's cat utility).  But the armored forms are
   not concatenatable without first dearmoring.  To avoid inconsistent
   behavior, a sop implementation SHOULD reject anything that appears to
   be a concatenated series of ASCII-armored objects.

   When considering OpenPGP material as input, regardless of whether it
   is ASCII-armored or binary, sop SHOULD reject any material that
   doesn't produce a valid stream of OpenPGP packets.  For example, sop
   SHOULD raise an error if an OpenPGP packet header is malformed, or if
   there is trailing garbage after the end of a packet.

   For a given type of OpenPGP input material (i.e., SIGNATURES, CERTS,
   KEYS, INLINESIGNED, or CIPHERTEXT), sop SHOULD also reject any input
   that does not conform to the expected packet stream.  See Section 6
   for the expected packet stream for different types.

10.5.  Complexities of the Cleartext Signature Framework

   sop prefers a detached signature as the baseline form of OpenPGP
   signature, but provides affordances for dealing with inline-signed
   messages (see INLINESIGNED, Section 6.5) as well.

   The most complex form of inline-signed messages is the Cleartext
   Signature Framework (CSF).  Handling the CSF structure requires
   parsing to delimit the multiple parts of the document, including at
   least:

   *  any preamble before the message

   *  the inline message header (delimiter line, OpenPGP headers)

   *  the message itself

   *  the divider between the message and the signature (including any
      OpenPGP headers there)

   *  the signature

   *  the divider that terminates the signature

   *  any suffix after the signature





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   Note also that the preamble or the suffix might be arbitrary text,
   and might themselves contain OpenPGP messages (whether signatures or
   otherwise).

   If the parser that does this split differs in any way from the parser
   that does the verification, or parts of the message are confused, it
   would be possible to produce a verification status and an actual
   signed message that don't correspond to one another.

   Blurred boundary problems like this can produce ugly attacks similar
   to those found in [EFAIL].

   A user of sop that receives an inline-signed message (whether the
   message uses the CSF or not) can detach the signature from the
   message with sop inline-detach (see Section 4.3.5).

   Alternately, the user can send the message through sop inline-verify
   to confirm required signatures, and then (if signatures are valid)
   supply its output to the consumer of the signed message.

10.6.  Reliance on Supplied Certs and Keys

   A truly stateless implementation may find that it spends more time
   validating the internal consistency of certificates and keys than it
   does on the actual object security operations.

   For performance reasons, an implementation may choose to ignore
   validation on certificate and key material supplied to it.  The
   security implications of doing so depend on how the certs and keys
   are managed outside of sop.

10.7.  Text is always UTF-8

   Various places in this specification require UTF-8 [RFC3629] when
   encoding text. sop implementations SHOULD NOT consider textual data
   in any other character encoding.

   OpenPGP Implementations MUST already handle UTF-8, because various
   parts of [RFC4880] require it, including:

   *  User ID

   *  Notation name

   *  Reason for revocation

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   Dealing with messages in other charsets leads to weird security
   failures like [Charset-Switching], especially when the charset
   indication is not covered by any sort of cryptographic integrity
   check.  Restricting textual data to UTF-8 universally across the
   OpenPGP ecosystem eliminates any such risk without losing
   functionality, since UTF-8 can encode all known characters.

10.8.  Passwords are Human-Readable

   Passwords are generally expected to be human-readable, as they are
   typically recorded and transmitted as human-visible, human-
   transferable strings.  However, they are used in the OpenPGP protocol
   as bytestrings, so it is important to ensure that there is a reliable
   bidirectional mapping between strings and bytes.  The maximally
   robust behavior here is for sop encrypt and sop generate-key (that
   is, commands that use a password to encrypt) to constrain the choice
   of passwords to strings that have such a mapping, and for sop decrypt
   and sop sign (and sop inline-sign, as well assop encrypt when
   decrypting a signing key; that is, commands that use a password to
   decrypt) to try multiple plausible versions of any password supplied
   by PASSWORD.

10.8.1.  Generating Material with Human-Readable Passwords

   When generating material based on a password, sop encrypt and sop
   generate-key enforce that the password is actually meaningfully
   human-transferable.  In particular, an implementation generating
   material based on a new paasword SHOULD apply the following
   considerations to the supplied password:

   *  require UTF-8

   *  trim trailing whitespace

   Some sop encrypt and sop generate-key implementations may make even
   more strict requirements on input to ensure that they are
   transferable between humans in a robust way.

   For example, a more strict sop encrypt or sop generate-key MAY also:

   *  forbid leading whitespace

   *  forbid non-printing characters other than SPACE (U+0020), such as
      ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER (U+200C) or TAB (U+0009)

   *  require the password to be in Unicode Normal Form C
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   Violations of these more-strict policies SHOULD result in an error of
   PASSWORD_NOT_HUMAN_READABLE.

   A sop encrypt or sop generate-key implementation typically SHOULD NOT
   attempt enforce a minimum "password strength", but in the event that
   some implementation does, it MUST NOT represent a weak password with
   PASSWORD_NOT_HUMAN_READABLE.

10.8.2.  Consuming Password-protected Material

   When sop decrypt receives a PASSWORD input, either from a --with-key-
   password or --with-password option, it sees its content as a
   bytestring. sop sign also sees the content of any PASSWORD input
   supplied to its --with-key-password option as a bytestring.  If the
   bytestring fails to work as a password, but ends in UTF-8 whitespace,
   it will try again with the trailing whitespace removed.  This handles
   a common pattern of using a file with a final newline, for example.
   The pattern here is one of robustness in the face of typical errors
   in human-transferred textual data.

   A more robust sop decrypt or sop sign implementation that finds
   neither of the above two attempts work for a given PASSWORD MAY try
   additional variations if they produce a different bytestring, such
   as:

   *  trimming any leading whitespace, if discovered

   *  trimming any internal non-printable characters other than SPACE
      (U+0020)

   *  converting the supplied PASSWORD into Unicode Normal Form C
      ([UNICODE-NORMALIZATION])

   A sop decrypt or sop sign implementation that stages multiple
   decryption attempts like this SHOULD consider the computational
   resources consumed by each attempt, to avoid presenting an attack
   surface for resource exhaustion in the face of a non-standard
   PASSWORD input.

10.9.  Be Careful with Special Designators

   As documented in Section 6.1, special designators for indirect inputs
   like @ENV: and @FD: (and indirect outputs using @FD:) warrant some
   special/cautious handling.

   For one thing, it's conceivable that the filesystem could contain a
   file with these literal names.  If sop receives an indirect output
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   write to the filesystem for that parameter.  A sop implementation
   that receives such a parameter as input MAY test for the presence of
   such a file in the filesystem and fail with AMBIGUOUS_INPUT to warn
   the user of the ambiguity and possible confusion.

   These special designators are likely to be used to pass sensitive
   data (like secret key material or passwords) so that it doesn't need
   to touch the filesystem.  Given this sensitivity, sop should be
   careful with such an input, and minimize its leakage to other
   processes.  In particular, sop SHOULD NOT leak any environment
   variable identified by @ENV: or file descriptor identified by @FD: to
   any subprocess unless the subprocess specifically needs access to
   that data.

10.10.  Nuances for Hardware-backed Secret Key Material

   There are a number of limitations and nuances to be aware of for
   hardware-backed secret key support in this interface.  Some sop
   implementations will simply not support hardware-backed secret key
   material.  Other implementations might support only a single kind of
   hardware-backing (e.g., an OpenPGP Smartcard [OPENPGP-SMARTCARD] but
   not a TPM, or vice versa).

   There is no formally adopted OpenPGP standard for identifying that a
   given secret key is backed by hardware based on the OpenPGP wire
   format.  [I-D.dkg-openpgp-hardware-secrets] proposes one simple and
   straightforward approach for how the wire format could cover this use
   case.  This simple mechanism is deliberately agnostic about the
   specific kind of cryptographic hardware, but it does imply a sort of
   rough shape of what the interface to the hardware would permit.  In
   particular, it will work best with hardware that has the following
   properties:

   *  The hardware does specific asymmetric secret key operations, using
      secret keys that it does not release.

   *  The user can ask the hardware to provide a list of corresponding
      public key material (or OpenPGP key fingerprints) for any of the
      secret keys held by the device.

   *  The hardware MAY require the provision of a PIN or password to
      enable secret key operation, but does not require a PIN or
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   The sop interface does not currently provide for provisioning
   cryptographic hardware with secret key material, or for changing the
   PIN or password for the cryptographic hardware.  Users of
   cryptographic hardware need to do provisioning and PIN or password
   setting outside of sop.

   If a user has two attached hardware tokens that both hold the same
   secret key, and they are both password-locked, and they use different
   passwords, sop offers no way for the user to clearly indicate which
   password belongs to which device.  Some cryptographic hardware is
   designed to lock the device if the wrong password is entered too many
   times, so users in this configuration are at risk of accidental
   lockout.  The easiest resolution for this is for the user to detach
   any duplicate devices before invoking sop.

   Note that some OpenPGP implementations use the private codepoint
   ranges in the OpenPGP specification within an OpenPGP Transferable
   Secret Key (e.g., [GNUPG-SECRET-STUB]) to indicate that the secret
   key can be found on a smartcard.

   While hardware-backed secret key operations can be significantly
   slower than modern computers, and physical affordances like button-
   presses or NFC tapping can themselves incur delay, it's bad form for
   an invocation of sop to hang forever.  This specification doesn't
   define a specific maximum allowable delay, but if an implementation
   calls into a hardware device either for public key listing or for
   secret key operations, it should not allow the cryptographic hardware
   to take an arbitrary amount of time to respond.

11.  Guidance for Consumers

   While sop is originally conceived of as an interface for
   interoperability testing, it's conceivable that an application that
   uses OpenPGP for object security would want to use it.

   FIXME: more guidance for how to use such a tool safely and
   efficiently goes here.

   FIXME: if an encrypted OpenPGP message arrives without metadata, it
   is difficult to know which signers to consider when decrypting.  How
   do we do this efficiently without invoking sop decrypt twice, once
   without --verify-* and again with the expected identity material?

11.1.  Choosing Between --as=text and --as=binary

   A program that invokes sop to generate an OpenPGP signature typically
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   By default, sop will make a binary signature.  The caller of sop sign
   should choose --as=text only when it knows that:

   *  the data being signed is in fact textual, and encoded in UTF-8,
      and

   *  the signed data might be transmitted to the recipient (the
      verifier of the signature) over a channel that has the propensity
      to transform line-endings.

   Examples of such channels include FTP ([RFC0959]) and SMTP
   ([RFC5321]).

11.2.  Special Designators and Unusual Filenames

   In some cases, a user of sop might want to pass all the files in a
   given directory as positional parameters (e.g., a list of CERTS files
   to test a signature against).

   If one of the files has a name that starts with --, it might be
   confused by sop for an option.  If one of the files has a name that
   starts with @, it might be confused by sop as a special designator
   (Section 6.1).

   If the user wants to deliberately refer to such an ambiguously-named
   file in the filesystem, they should prefix the filename with ./ or
   use an absolute path.

   Any specific @FD: special designator SHOULD NOT be supplied more than
   once to an invocation of sop.  If a sop invocation sees multiple
   copies of a specific @FD:n input (e.g., sop sign @FD:3 @FD:3), it MAY
   fail with MISSING_INPUT even if file descriptor 3 contains a valid
   KEYS, because the bytestream for the KEYS was consumed by the first
   argument.  Doubling up on the same @FD: for output (e.g., sop decrypt
   --session-key-out=@FD:3 --verifications-out=@FD:3) also results in an
   ambiguous data stream.

12.  Security Considerations

   The OpenPGP object security model is typically used for
   confidentiality and authenticity purposes.

12.1.  Signature Verification

   In many contexts, an OpenPGP signature is verified to prove the
   origin and integrity of an underlying object.





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   When sop checks a signature over data (e.g., via sop verify or sop
   decrypt --verify-with), it MUST NOT consider it to be verified unless
   all of these conditions are met:

   *  The signature must be made by a signing-capable public key that is
      present in one of the supplied certificates

   *  The certificate and signing subkey must have been created before
      or at the signature time

   *  The certificate and signing subkey must not have been expired at
      the signature time

   *  The certificate and signing subkey must not be revoked with a
      "hard" revocation

   *  If the certificate or signing subkey is revoked with a "soft"
      revocation, then the signature time must predate the revocation

   *  The signing subkey must be properly bound to the primary key, and
      cross-signed

   *  The signature (and any dependent signature, such as the cross-sig
      or subkey binding signatures) must be made with strong
      cryptographic algorithms (e.g., not MD5 or a 1024-bit RSA key)

   *  The signature must be of type 0x00 ("Signature of a binary
      document") or 0x01 ("Signature of a canonical text document");
      other signature types are inappropriate for data signatures

   Implementers MAY also consider other factors in addition to the
   origin and authenticity, including application-specific information.

   For example, consider the application domain of checking software
   updates.  If software package Foo version 13.3.2 was signed on
   2019-10-04, and the user receives a copy of Foo version 12.4.8 that
   was signed on 2019-10-16, it may be authentic and have a more recent
   signature date.  But it is not an upgrade (12.4.8 < 13.3.2), and
   therefore it should not be applied automatically.

   In such cases, it is critical that the application confirms that the
   other information verified is _also_ protected by the relevant
   OpenPGP signature.

   Signature validity is a complex topic (see for example the discussion
   at [DISPLAYING-SIGNATURES]), and this documentation cannot list all
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12.2.  Compression

   The interface as currently specified does not allow for control of
   compression.  Compressing and encrypting data that may contain both
   attacker-supplied material and sensitive material could leak
   information about the sensitive material (see the CRIME attack).

   Unless an application knows for sure that no attacker-supplied
   material is present in the input, it should not compress during
   encryption.

13.  Privacy Considerations

   Material produced by sop encrypt may be placed on an untrusted
   machine (e.g., sent through the public SMTP network).  That material
   may contain metadata that leaks associational information (e.g.,
   recipient identifiers in PKESK packets (Section 5.1 of
   [I-D.ietf-openpgp-crypto-refresh-10])).  FIXME: document things like
   PURBs and --hidden-recipient)

13.1.  Object Security vs. Transport Security

   OpenPGP offers an object security model, but says little to nothing
   about how the secured objects get to the relevant parties.

   When sending or receiving OpenPGP material, the implementer should
   consider what privacy leakage is implicit with the transport.

14.  References

14.1.  Normative References

   [I-D.ietf-openpgp-crypto-refresh-10]
              Wouters, P., Huigens, D., Winter, J., and N. Yutaka,
              "OpenPGP", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-
              openpgp-crypto-refresh-10, 21 June 2023,
              <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-openpgp-
              crypto-refresh-10>.

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2119>.

   [RFC3156]  Elkins, M., Del Torto, D., Levien, R., and T. Roessler,
              "MIME Security with OpenPGP", RFC 3156,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC3156, August 2001,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3156>.



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   [RFC3629]  Yergeau, F., "UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO
              10646", STD 63, RFC 3629, DOI 10.17487/RFC3629, November
              2003, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3629>.

   [RFC4880]  Callas, J., Donnerhacke, L., Finney, H., Shaw, D., and R.
              Thayer, "OpenPGP Message Format", RFC 4880,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC4880, November 2007,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4880>.

   [RFC8174]  Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC
              2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174,
              May 2017, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8174>.

14.2.  Informative References

   [Charset-Switching]
              Gillmor, D. K., "Inline PGP Considered Harmful", 24
              February 2014,
              <https://dkg.fifthhorseman.net/notes/inline-pgp-harmful/>.

   [DISPLAYING-SIGNATURES]
              Brunschwig, P., "On Displaying Signatures", n.d.,
              <https://admin.hostpoint.ch/pipermail/enigmail-
              users_enigmail.net/2017-November/004683.html>.

   [EFAIL]    Poddebniak, D. and C. Dresen, "Efail: Breaking S/MIME and
              OpenPGP Email Encryption using Exfiltration Channels",
              n.d., <https://efail.de>.

   [GNUPG-SECRET-STUB]
              Koch, W., "GNU Extensions to the S2K algorithm", 4 July
              2023,
              <https://dev.gnupg.org/source/gnupg/browse/master/doc/
              DETAILS;gnupg-2.4.3$1511>.

   [I-D.dkg-openpgp-hardware-secrets]
              Gillmor, D. K., "OpenPGP Hardware-Backed Secret Keys",
              Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-dkg-openpgp-
              hardware-secrets-00, 28 December 2023,
              <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-dkg-openpgp-
              hardware-secrets-00>.

   [I-D.draft-bre-openpgp-samples-01]
              Einarsson, B. R., "juga", and D. K. Gillmor, "OpenPGP
              Example Keys and Certificates", Work in Progress,
              Internet-Draft, draft-bre-openpgp-samples-01, 20 December
              2019, <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-bre-
              openpgp-samples-01>.



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   [I-D.ietf-lamps-e2e-mail-guidance-11]
              Gillmor, D. K., Hoeneisen, B., and A. Melnikov, "Guidance
              on End-to-End E-mail Security", Work in Progress,
              Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-lamps-e2e-mail-guidance-11, 8
              August 2023, <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-
              ietf-lamps-e2e-mail-guidance-11>.

   [OpenPGP-Interoperability-Test-Suite]
              "OpenPGP Interoperability Test Suite", 25 October 2021,
              <https://tests.sequoia-pgp.org/>.

   [OPENPGP-SMARTCARD]
              Pietig, A., "Functional Specification of the OpenPGP
              application on ISO Smart Card Operating Systems, Version
              3.4", 18 March 2020, <https://www.gnupg.org/ftp/specs/
              OpenPGP-smart-card-application-3.4.pdf>.

   [PYTHON-SOP]
              Gillmor, D., "SOP for python", n.d.,
              <https://pypi.org/project/sop/>.

   [RFC0959]  Postel, J. and J. Reynolds, "File Transfer Protocol",
              STD 9, RFC 959, DOI 10.17487/RFC0959, October 1985,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc959>.

   [RFC5321]  Klensin, J., "Simple Mail Transfer Protocol", RFC 5321,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC5321, October 2008,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5321>.

   [RUST-SOP] Winter, J., "A Rust implementation of the Stateless
              OpenPGP Protocol", n.d.,
              <https://sequoia-pgp.gitlab.io/sop-rs/>.

   [SEMVER]   Preston-Werner, T., "Semantic Versioning 2.0.0", 18 June
              2013, <https://semver.org/>.

   [SOP-JAVA] Schaub, P., "Stateless OpenPGP Protocol for Java.", n.d.,
              <https://github.com/pgpainless/sop-java>.

   [UNICODE-NORMALIZATION]
              Whistler, K., "Unicode Normalization Forms", 4 February
              2019, <https://unicode.org/reports/tr15/>.

Appendix A.  C Library API (Tentative)

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   However, it can also be useful to have a comparable API exposed as a
   C library.  This library can be implemented as a shared object (e.g.,
   .so, .dll, or .dylib depending on the platform) or as a statically
   linked object.  This interface can be reused in many different
   places, as most modern programming languages offer "bindings" to C
   libraries.

   A proposed interface to a C library follows here as a C header file.

   The primary goal of this shared object interface is to make it easy
   to implement the command-line interface described in this document.
   That said, it is also intended to be relatively ergonomic to use in
   plausible OpenPGP workflows where the caller has access to all of the
   explicit state.

   If there is a plausible OpenPGP workflow that is not supported by
   this library API, please propose improvements and explain the
   specific workflow.

   #ifndef __SOP_H__
   #define __SOP_H__

   #include <stdlib.h>
   #include <stdint.h>
   #include <stdbool.h>
   #include <string.h>
   #include <limits.h>

   /* C API for Stateless OpenPGP */

   /* Depends on C99 */


   /* statically-defined, non-opaque definitions */

   typedef enum {
     SOP_OK = 0,
     SOP_INTERNAL_ERROR = 1, /* Not part of sop CLI */
     SOP_INVALID_ARG = 2, /* Not part of sop CLI */
     SOP_NO_SIGNATURE = 3,
     SOP_OPERATION_ALREADY_EXECUTED = 4, /* Not part of sop CLI */
     SOP_UNSUPPORTED_ASYMMETRIC_ALGO = 13,
     SOP_CERT_CANNOT_ENCRYPT = 17,
     SOP_MISSING_ARG = 19,
     SOP_INCOMPLETE_VERIFICATION = 23,
     SOP_CANNOT_DECRYPT = 29,
     SOP_PASSWORD_NOT_HUMAN_READABLE = 31,
     SOP_UNSUPPORTED_OPTION = 37,



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     SOP_BAD_DATA = 41,
     SOP_EXPECTED_TEXT = 53,
     SOP_OUTPUT_EXISTS = 59,
     SOP_MISSING_INPUT = 61,
     SOP_KEY_IS_PROTECTED = 67,
     SOP_UNSUPPORTED_SUBCOMMAND = 69,
     SOP_UNSUPPORTED_SPECIAL_PREFIX = 71,
     SOP_AMBIGUOUS_INPUT = 73,
     SOP_KEY_CANNOT_SIGN = 79,
     SOP_INCOMPATIBLE_OPTIONS = 83,
     SOP_UNSUPPORTED_PROFILE = 89,
     SOP_NO_HARDWARE_KEY_FOUND = 97,
     SOP_HARDWARE_KEY_FAILURE = 101,

     /* ensures a stable size for the enum -- do not use! */
     SOP_MAX_ERR = INT_MAX,
   } sop_err;


   typedef enum {
     SOP_SIGN_AS_BINARY = 0,
     SOP_SIGN_AS_TEXT = 1,

     /* ensures a stable size for the enum -- do not use! */
     SOP_SIGN_AS_MAX = INT_MAX,
   } sop_sign_as;

   typedef enum {
     SOP_INLINE_SIGN_AS_BINARY = 0,
     SOP_INLINE_SIGN_AS_TEXT = 1,
     SOP_INLINE_SIGN_AS_CLEARSIGNED = 2,

     /* ensures a stable size for the enum -- do not use! */
     SOP_INLINE_SIGN_AS_MAX = INT_MAX,
   } sop_inline_sign_as;

   typedef enum {
     SOP_ENCRYPT_AS_BINARY = 0,
     SOP_ENCRYPT_AS_TEXT = 1,

     /* ensures a stable size for the enum -- do not use! */
     SOP_ENCRYPT_AS_MAX = INT_MAX,
   } sop_encrypt_as;


   /* FIXME: timestamps */
   /* time_t is 32-bit on some architectures; we also want this to be
      able to represent a "none" value as well as a "now" value without



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      removing some value from the range of time_t */
   typedef time_t sop_time;
   #define sop_time_none ((sop_time)0)
   #define sop_time_now ((sop_time)-1)


   /* Context object
    *
    * Each SOP object is bound back to a context object, and, when used
    * in combination with other SOP objects, all SOP objects should come
    * from the same context.
    *
    * A SOP context object need not be thread-safe; it should probably
    * not be used across multiple threads.  See "Zero global state" in
    * https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kay/libabc.git/plain/README
    */

   struct sop_ctx_st;
   typedef struct sop_ctx_st sop_ctx;

   sop_ctx*
   sop_ctx_new ();
   void
   sop_ctx_free (sop_ctx *sop);

   /* Logging: */

   typedef enum {
     SOP_LOG_NEVER = 0,
     SOP_LOG_ERROR = 1,
     SOP_LOG_WARNING = 2,
     SOP_LOG_INFO = 3,
     SOP_LOG_DEBUG = 4,

     /* ensures a stable size for the enum -- do not use! */
     SOP_LOG_MAX = INT_MAX,
   } sop_log_level;

   static inline const char *
   sop_log_level_name (sop_log_level log_level) {
   #define rep(x) if (log_level == SOP_LOG_ ## x) return #x
     rep(ERROR);
     rep(WARNING);
     rep(INFO);
     rep(DEBUG);
   #undef rep
     return "Unknown";
   }



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   /* Handle warnings and other feedback.
    *
    * A SOP implementation that is capable of producing log messages will
    * invoke the requested function with the log level of the message,
    * and a NULL-terminated UTF-8 human-readable string with no trailing
    * whitespace.
    *
    * the "passthrough" pointer is supplied by the library user via
    * sop_set_log_level.
    */
   typedef void (*sop_log_func) (sop_log_level log_level, void *passthrough, const char *);
   sop_err
   sop_set_log_function (sop_ctx *sop, sop_log_func func, void *passthrough);
   /* Set the logging verbosity.
    *
    * Only log warnings up to max_level. (by default, max_level is
    * SOP_LOG_WARNING, meaning SOP_LOG_INFO and SOP_LOG_DEBUG will be
    * suppressed).
    */
   sop_err
   sop_set_log_level (sop_ctx *sop, sop_log_level max_level);



   /* Information about the library: */

   /* The name and version of the implementation of the C API (simple
    * NUL-terminated string, no newlines), or NULL if there is an error
    * producing the version. */
   const char *
   sop_version (sop_ctx *sop);
   /* The name and version of the primary underlying OpenPGP toolkit (or
    * NULL if there is no backend, or if there was an error producing the
    * backend version) */
   const char *
   sop_version_backend (sop_ctx *sop);
   /* Any arbitrary extended version information other than sop_ctx_version.
      Version info should be UTF-8 text, separated by newlines (a
      NUL-terminated string, no trailing newline).  Can return NULL if
      there is nothing more to report beyond sop_version. */
   const char *
   sop_version_extended (sop_ctx *sop);

   /* note: there is nothing comparable to sop version --sop-spec because
    * that should be visible based on the exported symbols in the shared
    * object */





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   /* PROFILE objects: */

   /* These describe a profile (e.g. for generate-key or encrypt).  This
    * use used when the implementation might legitimately want to offer
    * the user some minimal amount of control over what is done.  The
    * profile-listing functions return blocks of four profiles.  A
    * sop_profile value of NULL represents no profile at all.  In a list
    * of sop_profile objects, once a NULL profile appears, no non-NULL
    * profiles may follow.

    */
   struct sop_profile_st;
   typedef struct sop_profile_st sop_profile;
   /* the NUL-terminated string returned by sop_profile_name MUST be a
      UTF-8 encoded string, and MUST NOT include any whitespace or colon
      (`:`) characters.  It MUST NOT vary depending on locale. */
   const char *
   sop_profile_name (const sop_profile *profile);
   /* The NUL-terminated string returned by sop_profile_description
      cannot contain any newlines, and it MAY vary depending on
      locale(7) if the implementation is internationalized. */
   const char *
   sop_profile_description (const sop_profile *profile);


   #define SOP_MAX_PROFILE_COUNT 4

   typedef struct {
     sop_profile *profile[SOP_MAX_PROFILE_COUNT];
   } sop_profiles;

   static inline int
   sop_profiles_count(const sop_profiles profiles) {
     for (int i = 0; i < SOP_MAX_PROFILE_COUNT; i++)
       if (profiles.profile[i] == NULL)
         return i;
     return SOP_MAX_PROFILE_COUNT;
   }

   /* Return a list of profiles supported by the library for generating
    * keys.
    */
   sop_err
   sop_list_profiles_generate_key (sop_ctx *sop, sop_profiles *out);


   /* CLEARTEXT (and other raw data): */




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   /* This is a standard buffer for bytestrings produced by sop.  Users
      never create this kind of object, but it is sometimes returned from
      the library. */
   struct sop_buf_st;
   typedef struct sop_buf_st sop_buf;

   void
   sop_buf_free (sop_buf *buf);
   size_t
   sop_buf_size (const sop_buf *buf);
   const uint8_t *
   sop_buf_data (const sop_buf *buf);


   /* KEYS objects: */
   struct sop_keys_st;
   typedef struct sop_keys_st sop_keys;

   sop_err
   sop_keys_from_bytes (sop_ctx *sop,
                        const uint8_t* data, size_t len,
                        sop_keys **out);
   sop_err
   sop_keys_to_bytes (const sop_keys *keys,
                      bool armor, sop_buf **out);
   void
   sop_keys_free (sop_keys *keys);



   /* Generate a new, minimal OpenPGP Transferable secret key.  `profile`
      can be NULL to mean the default profile. */
   sop_err
   sop_generate_key_with_profile (sop_ctx *sop,
                                  sop_profile *profile,
                                  bool sign_only,
                                  sop_keys **out);

   static inline sop_err
   sop_generate_key (sop_ctx *sop, sop_keys **out) {
     return sop_generate_key_with_profile (sop, NULL, false, out);
   }

   /* For each key in the sop_keys object, add the given user ID, and
      return a new sop_keys object containing the updated keys.  If the
      supplied user ID is not valid UTF-8 text, this call will fail and
      return SOP_EXPECTED_TEXT.




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      If the implementation rejects the user ID string by policy for any
      other reason, this call will fail and return SOP_BAD_DATA.
    */
   sop_err
   sop_keys_add_uid (const sop_keys *keys, const char *uid, sop_keys **out);

   /* returns true if any of the secret key material is currently locked
      with a password */
   sop_err
   sop_keys_locked (const sop_keys *keys, bool *out);

   /* return a new sop_keys object with any secret key material encrypted
      with `password` unlocked, Returns SOP_OK if all keys have now been
      unlocked.

      If any locked key material could not be unlocked, return
      SOP_KEY_IS_PROTECTED, while also unlocking what key material can be
      unlocked.

      This allows the user to try an arbitrary bytestream as a password.
      Most users will just invoke the inlined sop_keys_unlock, below.

      An implementation MUST NOT reject proposed passwords by policy
      during unlock, but rather should try them as requested.
   */
   sop_err
   sop_keys_unlock_raw (const sop_keys *keys,
                        const uint8_t *raw_password, size_t len,
                        sop_keys **out);


   static inline sop_err
   sop_keys_unlock (const sop_keys *keys, const char *password, sop_keys **out) {
     return sop_keys_unlock_raw (keys,
                                 (const uint8_t *)password,
                                 strlen (password),
                                 out);
   }


   /* return a new sop_keys object where all secret key material is
      locked with `password` where possible.

      During locking, a safety-oriented implementation MAY reject the
      supplied password by policy for any number of reasons.  This helps
      libsop ensure that the proposed password can be successfully
      re-supplied during some future unlock attempt.




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      If the implementation requires passwords to be UTF-8 text and the
      supplied password is not valid UTF-8, the implementation will fail,
      returning SOP_EXPECTED_TEXT.  If an implementation rejects a
      supplied password for some other reason (for example, if it
      contains an NUL, unprintable, or otherwise forbidden character),
      this call will fail and return SOP_BAD_DATA.

      If any key material is already locked, it does nothing and returns
      SOP_KEY_IS_PROTECTED.

      Upon a successful locking, the user probably wants to use
      sop_keys_free to free the original keys object.
   */
   sop_err
   sop_keys_lock_raw (const sop_keys *keys,
                      const uint8_t *password, size_t len,
                      sop_keys **out);

   static inline sop_err
   sop_keys_lock (const sop_keys *keys, const char *password, sop_keys **out) {
     return sop_keys_lock_raw (keys,
                               (const uint8_t *)password,
                               strlen (password),
                               out);
   }





   /* CERTS objects: */
   struct sop_certs_st;
   typedef struct sop_certs_st sop_certs;

   sop_err
   sop_certs_from_bytes (sop_ctx *sop,
                         const uint8_t* data, size_t len,
                         sop_certs **out);
   sop_err
   sop_certs_to_bytes (const sop_certs *certs,
                       bool armor, sop_buf **out);
   void
   sop_certs_free (sop_certs *certs);

   /* Return the OpenPGP certificates ("Transferable Public Keys") that
      correspond to the OpenPGP Transferable Secret Keys. */
   sop_err
   sop_keys_extract_certs (const sop_keys *keys, sop_certs **out);



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   /* Return an OpenPGP revocation certificate for each Transferable
      Secret Key found in the input. */
   sop_err
   sop_keys_revoke_keys (const sop_keys *keys, sop_certs **out);



   /* SIGNATURES objects: */
   struct sop_sigs_st;
   typedef struct sop_sigs_st sop_sigs;

   sop_err
   sop_sigs_from_bytes (sop_ctx *sop,
                        const uint8_t* data, size_t len,
                        sop_sigs **out);
   sop_err
   sop_sigs_to_bytes (const sop_sigs *sigs,
                      bool armor, sop_buf **out);
   void
   sop_sigs_free (sop_sigs *sigs);



   /* VERIFICATIONS (output only, describes valid, verified signatures): */
   struct sop_verifications_st;
   typedef struct sop_verifications_st sop_verifications;

   void
   sop_verifications_free (sop_verifications *verifs);
   sop_err
   sop_verifications_count (const sop_verifications *verifs, int *out);
   /* textual representations of verifications, in the form described by
      VERIFICATIONS in the CLI */
   sop_err
   sop_verifications_to_text (const sop_verifications *verifs,
                              sop_buf **out);
   /* returns SOP_INTERNAL_ERROR if count is out of bounds. */
   sop_err
   sop_verifications_get_time (const sop_verifications *verifs,
                               int count, sop_time *out);
   /* returns SOP_INTERNAL_ERROR if count is out of bounds.  If the
      signature is neither type 0x00 nor 0x01, this should probably not
      be considered a valid, verified signature. */
   sop_err
   sop_verifications_get_mode (const sop_verifications *verifs,
                               int count, sop_sign_as *out);

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      each verification should also have an issuing key fingerprint, a
      primary key fingerprint, and a trailing text string) */






   /* create detached signatures: */
   struct sop_op_sign_st;
   typedef struct sop_op_sign_st sop_op_sign;

   sop_err
   sop_op_sign_new (sop_ctx *sop, sop_op_sign** out);
   void
   sop_op_sign_free (sop_op_sign *sign);

   sop_err
   sop_op_sign_use_keys (sop_op_sign *sign, const sop_keys *keys);

   sop_err
   sop_op_sign_detached_execute (sop_op_sign *sign,
                                 sop_sign_as sign_as,
                                 const uint8_t *msg,
                                 size_t sz,
                                 sop_buf **micalg_out,
                                 sop_sigs **out);


   /* verify detached signatures: */
   struct sop_op_verify_st;
   typedef struct sop_op_verify_st sop_op_verify;

   sop_err
   sop_op_verify_new (sop_ctx *sop, sop_op_verify** out);
   void
   sop_op_verify_free (sop_op_verify *verify);

   sop_err
   sop_op_verify_not_before (sop_op_verify *verify, sop_time when);
   sop_err
   sop_op_verify_not_after (sop_op_verify *verify, sop_time when);
   sop_err
   sop_op_verify_add_signers (sop_op_verify *verify,
                              const sop_certs *signers);

   /* if no verifications are possible with the set of signers, this
      returns SOP_NO_SIGNATURE, and *out is set to NULL */



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   sop_err
   sop_op_verify_detached_execute (sop_op_verify *verify,
                                   const sop_sigs *sigs,
                                   const uint8_t *msg,
                                   size_t sz,
                                   sop_verifications **out);



   /* INLINESIGNED object: */
   struct sop_inlinesigned_st;
   typedef struct sop_inlinesigned_st sop_inlinesigned;

   sop_err
   sop_inlinesigned_from_bytes (sop_ctx *sop,
                                const uint8_t* data, size_t len,
                                sop_inlinesigned **out);
   /* if the inlinesigned object uses the Cleartext Signing framework,
    * the armor parameter is ignored.
    */
   sop_err
   sop_inlinesigned_to_bytes (const sop_inlinesigned *inlinesigned,
                              bool armor, sop_buf **out);
   void
   sop_inlinesigned_free (sop_inlinesigned *inlinesigned);


   /* sop inline-sign */
   sop_err
   sop_op_sign_inline_execute (sop_op_sign *sign,
                               sop_inline_sign_as sign_as,
                               const uint8_t *msg,
                               size_t sz,
                               sop_inlinesigned **out);

   /* sop inline-verify */
   sop_err
   sop_op_verify_inline_execute (sop_op_verify *verify,
                                 const sop_inlinesigned *msg,
                                 sop_verifications **verifications_out,
                                 sop_buf **msg_out);

   /* sop inline-detach */
   sop_err
   sop_inlinesigned_detach (const sop_inlinesigned *msg,
                            sop_sigs **sigs_out,
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   #endif // __SOP_H__

   This proposed interface currently deals only with signing.
   Encryption and decryption will be added in a future revision.

A.1.  Design Choices for Library API

   The library is deliberately minimal, with data types and
   functionality corresponding to the SOP CLI.  The interface itself
   should expose no dependencies beyond libc.

   All datatypes are opaque structs.  Library implementations MUST NOT
   expose library users to the memory layout of the underlying objects.

   The library deals with data that is all in RAM, and produces data in
   RAM.  For simplicity, it does not currently expose a streaming
   interface.

   It should be fairly straightforward to implement the SOP CLI on top
   of such a library.

A.2.  Library Use Patterns

   There are two main kinds of data structures: operations (e.g.,
   sop_op_sign and sop_op_verify) and datatypes (e.g., sop_keys and
   sop_certs).

   Operation objects are one-shot objects.  They are used in the
   following pattern:

   *  create an operations object (sop_op_*_new)

   *  adjust it to behave in certain ways (e.g., sop_op_sign_use_keys,
      sop_op_verify_not_before)

   *  execute it (with some specific sop_op_*_execute function)

   *  dispose of it (sop_op_*_free)

   The library user MUST NOT execute the same operation object more than
   once.  When a single operation object is executed more than once, it
   should fail with SOP_OPERATION_ALREADY_EXECUTED.  FIXME: if a use
   case arises with a reasonable need to re-execute an already adjusted
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   Datatype objects are reusable objects.  For example, it is fine for a
   library user to pass the same sop_certs to multiple sop_op_*
   operation objects, as long as the sop_certs object is not freed
   before the execution of all the operation objects it has been passed
   to.

   Datatype objects are also immutable.  Any function which modifies a
   datatype object always creates a new copy of the object, with the
   specific change applied.  This immutability avoids any ambguity about
   what should happen when a datatype object is adjusted after it was
   passed to an operation object but before it was executed.

A.3.  libsopv C API Subset

   A minimalist library subset that only does OpenPGP signature
   verification might be called libsopv.  This library is useful
   wherever the use case is just OpenPGP signature verification.

   Such a library MUST implement the following functions from the C API:

   *  sop_ctx_new

   *  sop_ctx_free

   *  sop_set_log_function

   *  sop_set_log_level

   *  sop_version

   *  sop_version_backend

   *  sop_version_extended

   *  sop_buf_size

   *  sop_buf_data

   *  sop_buf_free

   *  sop_certs_from_bytes

   *  sop_certs_free

   *  sop_sigs_from_bytes

   *  sop_sigs_free




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   *  sop_verifications_count

   *  sop_verifications_get_time

   *  sop_verifications_get_mode

   *  sop_verifications_to_text

   *  sop_verifications_free

   *  sop_inlinesigned_from_bytes

   *  sop_op_verify_new

   *  sop_op_verify_not_before

   *  sop_op_verify_not_after

   *  sop_op_verify_add_signers

   *  sop_op_verify_detached_execute

   *  sop_op_verify_inline_execute

   *  sop_op_verify_free

   This minimal library interface should be sufficient to implement the
   sopv subset (see Section 3).

Appendix B.  Acknowledgements

   This work was inspired by Justus Winter's
   [OpenPGP-Interoperability-Test-Suite].

   The following people contributed helpful feedback and considerations
   to this draft, but are not responsible for its problems:

   *  Allan Nordhøy

   *  Antoine Beaupré

   *  Edwin Taylor

   *  Guillem Jover

   *  Heiko Schaefer

   *  Jameson Rollins



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   *  Justus Winter

   *  Paul Schaub

   *  Vincent Breitmoser

Appendix C.  Future Work

   *  certificate transformation into popular publication forms:

      -  WKD

      -  DANE OPENPGPKEY

      -  Autocrypt

   *  sop encrypt -- specify compression? (see Section 12.2)

   *  sop encrypt -- specify padding policy/mechanism?

   *  sop decrypt -- how can it more safely handle zip bombs?

   *  sop decrypt -- what should it do when encountering weakly-
      encrypted (or unencrypted) input?

   *  sop encrypt -- minimize metadata (e.g., --throw-keyids)?

   *  specify an error if a DATE arrives as input without a time zone?

   *  add considerations about what it means for armored CERTS to
      contain multiple certificates -- multiple armorings?  one big
      blob?

   *  do we need an interface or option (for performance?) with the
      semantics that sop doesn't validate certificates internally, it
      just accepts whatever's given as legit data? (see Section 10.6)

   *  do we need to be able to convert a message with a text-based
      signature to a CSF INLINESIGNED message?  I'd rather not, given
      the additional complications.

   *  add encryption and decryption to C Library API

Appendix D.  Document History







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D.1.  Substantive Changes between -09 and -10:

   *  drop @HARDWARE: special designator in favor of the simple
      [I-D.dkg-openpgp-hardware-secrets] or other magic

   *  drop hardware-specific C API function

   *  define SemVer-versioned sopv subset of CLI

   *  sop version: add --sopv option

   *  define libsopv subset of C API

   *  explicitly require BAD_DATA failure when KEYS are passed as CERTS

D.2.  Substantive Changes between -08 and -09:

   *  enable the use of hardware-backed secret key material via the
      @HARDWARE: special designator

   *  C API: clarify design goals and usage patterns

   *  C API: major overhaul and normalization:

      -  allow passthrough "cookie" for logging

      -  allow NULL return from sop_version_*

      -  explicitly offer SOP_LOG_NEVER

      -  use *_from_bytes and *_to_bytes instead of *_import and
         *_export

      -  datatype objects are now immutable

      -  operation objects are one-shot

      -  always return sop_err, even at a slight cost to C caller
         ergonomics

D.3.  Substantive Changes between -07 and -08:

   *  revoke-key, change-key-password: add --no-armor option

   *  generate-key: should fail on non-UTF-8 USERID

   *  generate-key: acknowledge that implementations MAY reject USERIDs
      that seem bad



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   *  armor: drop --label option

   *  encrypt: add --session-key-out option

   *  ASCII-armored objects should not be concatenated

   *  signature verification should only work for sigtypes 0x00 (binary)
      and 0x01 (canonical text)

   *  sign: Constrain input when --micalg-out is present for alignment
      with [RFC3156]

   *  propose simple C API for signing and verification

D.4.  Substantive Changes between -06 and -07:

   *  generate-key: add --signing-only option

   *  new key management subcommand: change-key-password

   *  new key management subcommand: revoke-key

D.5.  Substantive Changes between -05 and -06:

   *  version: add --sop-spec argument

   *  encrypt: add --profile argument

D.6.  Substantive Changes between -04 and -05:

   *  decrypt: change --verify-out to --verifications-out

   *  encrypt: add missing --with-key-password

   *  add the concept of "profiles", use with generate-key

   *  include table of known implementations

   *  VERIFICATIONS can now indicate the type of the signature
      (mode:text or mode:binary)

D.7.  Substantive Changes between -03 and -04:

   *  Reinforce that PASSWORD and SESSIONKEY are indirect data types

   *  encrypt: remove --as=mime option





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   *  Handle password-locked secret key material: add --with-key-
      password options to generate-key, sign, and decrypt.

   *  Introduce INLINESIGNED message type (Section 6.5)

   *  Rename detach-inband-signature-and-message to inline-detach,
      clarify its possible inputs

   *  Add inline-verify

   *  Add inline-sign

D.8.  Substantive Changes between -02 and -03:

   *  Added --micalg-out parameter to sign

   *  Change from KEY to KEYS (permit multiple secret keys in each blob)

   *  New error code: KEY_CANNOT_SIGN

   *  version now has --backend and --extended options

D.9.  Substantive Changes between -01 and -02:

   *  Added mnemonics for return codes

   *  decrypt should fail when asked to output to a pre-existing file

   *  Removed superfluous --armor option

   *  Much more specific about what armor --label=auto should do

   *  armor and dearmor are now fully idempotent, but work only well-
      formed OpenPGP streams

   *  Dropped armor --allow-nested

   *  Specified what encrypt --as= means

   *  New error code: KEY_IS_PROTECTED

   *  Documented expectations around human-readable, human-transferable
      passwords

   *  New subcommand: detach-inband-signature-and-message






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   *  More specific guidance about special designators like @FD: and
      @ENV:, including new error codes UNSUPPORTED_SPECIAL_PREFIX and
      AMBIGUOUS_INPUT

D.10.  Substantive Changes between -00 and -01:

   *  Changed generate subcommand to generate-key

   *  Changed convert subcommand to extract-cert

   *  Added "Input String Types" section as distinct from indirect I/O

   *  Made implicit arguments potentially explicit (e.g., sop armor
      --label=auto)

   *  Added --allow-nested to sop armor to make it idempotent by default

   *  Added fingerprint of signing (sub)key to VERIFICATIONS output

   *  Dropped --mode and --session-key arguments for sop encrypt (no
      plausible use, not needed for interop)

   *  Added --with-session-key argument to sop decrypt to allow for
      session-key-based decryption

   *  Added examples to each subcommand

   *  More detailed error codes for sop encrypt

   *  Move from CERT to CERTS (each CERTS argument might contain
      multiple certificates)

Author's Address

   Daniel Kahn Gillmor
   American Civil Liberties Union
   125 Broad St.
   New York, NY,  10004
   United States of America
   Email: dkg@fifthhorseman.net











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