Key Discovery Made Simple

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Wed Aug 31 12:32:23 CEST 2016


On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 18:10, melvincarvalho at gmail.com said:

> Just regarding the web server part, and not the email part.
>
> Could the semantic web be leveraged to store your key on an HTTPS page?

No.  The whole point is that there is an authoritativea mapping from
mail address to key.  You can't do that with an arbitrary web site.

But see the description for the old PKA system how this can be done
with a DNS entry.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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