Web Key Directory (dealing with subaddressing?)

[Werner Koch]

On Tue, 17 May 2016 15:07, bernhard at intevation.de said:

>  148 The so mapped "local-part" is hashed using the SHA-1 algorithm.
>
> What about the common pattern of subaddressing?

Still part of the local-part thus it does not matter.  It is an open
question on how to handle such sub-addressing.  I discussed this in
detail with Neal while thinking about TOFU; our conclusion was that it
is to early to settle for a standard on how to canonicalize such
addresses. If that makes sense at all.

> I think there is merit in letting the server decide, how to treat it.

That is the idea of the RFC but not the idea of the user.  Users don't
care about case and use whatever case they got (e.g. from papers).  I
have also seen people who are in the habit of always upcasing mail
addresses.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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