gpgme license

Peter Gutmann pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Thu Jul 25 17:12:08 CEST 2002


Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> writes:
>On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 23:20:48 +1200 (NZST), Peter Gutmann said:
>>Flip a coin 128 times?  Anything you feel like.  Remember that while with PGP
>>the keyIDs are implicit (which is a royal pain IMHO), with X.509 they're
>
>With an explicit subjectKeyIdentifier we need to agree on a way to store it in
>a PGP key.  Or we agree on how to use implictly create a subjectKeyIdentifier
>from a PGP key.

I've been using "issuerAndSerialNumber" to represent the iAndS in PGP data,
using "subjectKeyIdentifier" would be a logical extension.  I have a draft
(informational) RFC documenting this at the nowhere-near-ready-for-publication
stage :-).

Peter.





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