Policy URLs

David Shaw dshaw@jabberwocky.com
Fri Dec 6 18:57:02 2002


On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 06:46:09PM +0100, Kai Raven wrote:
> Hello David,
> 
> On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 08:01:02 -0500 you wrote:
> 
> > Note that the OpenPGP standard doesn't like people to use any tag name
> > they like ("info" in the above example).  
> 
> from the man page for 1.2.1:
> "Put the name value pair into the signature as notation data. name must
> consist only of alphanumeric characters, digits or the underscore; the
> first character must not be a digit."
> 
> > The standard asks that
> > people who want to make up their own tags use a tag name like
> > "info@some.domain.com".  You can use your email address for example,
> > but the only important thing is that it has a '@' in there somewhere.
> > 1.2.2 enforces this, by the way.
> 
> OK, no problem, but i hope, the man page will be updated too.

Yes, it was.. at the same time I added --cert-policy-url and
--sig-policy-url. ;)

David

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