Non email addresses in UID

[Steve Jones]

I've been thinking about UIDs in keys, rfc4880 section 5.1 says that by convention a UID is an rfc2822 email address but this is not a requirement[1]. Gnupg does enforce that restriction unless you explicitly disable it. It would seem to make sense to include other strings that can identify a user, many people have various URLs which could be said to relate to their identity, Facebook accounts, blogs etc... It could potentially be useful to be able to associate a key with these other identities, i.e. if you get an email purporting to be from someone you only know on a webforum it would be useful to be able to verify this. I'm curious what other people on this list think of this.


[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4880#section-5.11

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Steve Jones <steve at secretvolcanobase.org>
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