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# pemArmour

A flag that indicates the exported data should have PEM armor.

```
static var pemArmour: SecItemImportExportFlags { get }
```

## Discussion

PEM armor refers to a way of expressing binary data as an ASCII string so that it can be transferred over text-only channels such as email. (PEM stands for an Internet standard, Privacy Enhanced Mail.)

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