Including non-selfsigs in WKD?

Demi Marie Obenour demi at invisiblethingslab.com
Mon Jul 25 19:10:55 CEST 2022


On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 03:27:17PM +0200, Werner Koch via Gnupg-devel wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jul 2022 13:24, Ingo Klöcker said:
> > 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
> 
> No, they should not be included.  gpg-wks-cleint uses
> 
>   --export-options export-minimal which does 
> 
>    Export the smallest key possible. This removes all signatures except
>    the most recent self-signature on each user ID. This option is the
>    same as running the --edit-key command "minimize" before export
>    except that the local copy of the key is not modified. Defaults to
>    no.
> 
> I could imagine to add a feature to keep third-party signatures from
> keys which are flagged with fully trust.  However, this leaks the
> owneertrust information which we try to keep local.

What about using attestation signatures?  Only signatures that have been
attested to would be published.
-- 
Sincerely,
Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)
Invisible Things Lab
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