Standards: IETF WG proposing incompatible despite implementations and objections

Kai Engert kaie at kuix.de
Wed Apr 26 16:34:23 CEST 2023


Hello Bernhard,

On 26.04.23 15:19, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> It seems that the IETF working group
> plans to publish their proposal of an updated OpenPGP specification
> a) even with objections present
> b) and three major implementations
>   RNP (used by Thunderbird)
>   GnuPG and
>   OpenPGP.js (used by Mailvelope)
> present that have deployed and are using a set of new functions
> that GnuPG has documented and considered a rough consensus until 2021.

what are the new functions that RNP/GnuPG/OpenPGP.js use that you are 
referring to?

Could you please list the issues that you see regarding these functions 
and the proposed IETF OpenPGP specification?

Regards
Kai



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