[Feature request] send an user agent in hkp request

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Wed Jan 30 16:10:59 CET 2013


On Jan 30, 2013, at 4:05 AM, Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 05:12, dshaw at jabberwocky.com said:
> 
>> In fact, there is a TODO in the code to not pass the ASCII armor "Version" field either when sending keys to a keyserver.  I should implement that...
> 
> Actually we should remove this anywhere or strip it down to just "GnuPG"
> without version and OS.  Everywhere else we take care not to release
> unnecessary private data but not in the armored format.

Hmm.  Are you suggesting removing the Version header completely, or would simply changing the default to --no-emit-version handle this?

David




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