User ID format

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Tue Nov 8 17:02:45 CET 2016


On Tue,  8 Nov 2016 08:39, alec at alec.pl said:

> According to RFC4880 and RFC2822 quotes should be used in some cases,

   By convention, it [the OpenPGP user id packet] includes an RFC 2822
   mail name-addr, but there are no restrictions on its content.

thus you should not assume that the same rules apply.  In fact OpenPGP
requires UTF-8 which is not allowed by RFC-5322.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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