Including non-selfsigs in WKD?

Ingo Klöcker kloecker at kde.org
Mon Jul 11 13:24:27 CEST 2022


On Montag, 11. Juli 2022 12:29:44 CEST Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Ingo Klöcker <kloecker at kde.org> writes:
> > On Samstag, 9. Juli 2022 14:44:44 CEST Simon Josefsson via Gnupg-devel 
wrote:
> >> Dashamir Hoxha via Gnupg-devel <gnupg-devel at lists.gnupg.org> writes:
> >> > I agree that these things should be discussed and explained somewhere,
> >> > in
> >> > user guides, tutorials, etc. But maybe not in the spec. The spec does
> >> > not
> >> > even mention the command `gpg --export`, how can it describe and detail
> >> > export options?
> >> 
> >> The spec can speak about what data should go into the file, that's the
> >> point of a specification.  It shouldn't speak about
> >> implementation-specific commands of course.  Right now it says any
> >> OpenPGP public key for the particular user is valid, but I don't think
> >> it says anything either way about which sub-packets of that public key
> >> are permitted, encouraged or forbidden in the WKD published data.
> > 
> > The preferred way to "export" the key data to publish via WKD (not by the
> > spec, but by WKD's inventor) is to use gpg-wks-client.
> 
> Does it export signatures of the key?

From a quick glance at the code third-party signatures seem to be included in 
the export. And that makes sense because you probably want to publish your own 
cross-certifications when you do a key rollover.

Regards,
Ingo
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