TOFU for GnuPG

Neal H. Walfield neal at walfield.org
Fri Oct 30 12:51:27 CET 2015


At Fri, 30 Oct 2015 11:43:28 +0000,
MFPA wrote:
> On Thursday 29 October 2015 at 9:28:54 PM, in
> <mid:87611p8iuh.wl-neal at walfield.org>, Neal H. Walfield wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > Unfortunately, it doesn't.  This is because there is
> > currently no standard way to communicate the id of the
> > new key. I've proposed a solution for this
> 
> Wouldn't a signature notation (in a self-signature) be sufficient for
> this? Something like:-
> 
> NewKey at domain.example.com=[fingerprint]
> 
> And for key transition statements, perhaps a second notation:-
> 
> TransitionStatement at domain.example.com=[URL]

Sure.  But your point is a red herring.  There is *currently* no way
to do this.  However, the next version of the OpenPGP spec should have
a way to do this.

Neal



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