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[Bernhard Reiter]

https://wiki.gnupg.org/WKD

Feedback and help appreciated! :)
Bernhard

= Much easier Email crypto, by fetching pubkey via HTTPS 

== How does it work?
As an email user, you just select the recipient(s) and can see that the email 
will be encrypted.

If you and your peers use email-providers offering this "web key service", 
it works by the first email. Otherwise encryption will start after you have 
exchanged some emails.


Technically your email client will automatically
* prepare for this by creating a crypto key for you and uploading 
  it to your provider (or second best to public keyservers).
* sign all emails so others see that you are ready for crypto 
  (unless you opt out)
* ask the mail provider of your recipients for their pubkeys.

An email-provider offering the "web key service" technically has to
* provide a pubkey for each user via ~HT~TPS
* allow each user's email client to automatically manage the pubkey 
   that gets published by email.

== Details / Discussion of the proposal
* [[EasyGpg2016/PubkeyDistributionConcept]] <- the (technical) details
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