Exchange between muiltiple OpenPGP implementations

Patrick Brunschwig patrick at enigmail.net
Sun May 31 12:17:06 CEST 2020


Peter Lebbing wrote on 31.05.2020 11:07:
> Hi,
> 
> On 31/05/2020 10:01, Patrick Brunschwig wrote:
>> The only "problem" might be that you have different keys on different
>> key rings. But this is not necessarily a problem - you use different
>> keys for different purposes and you can import and export the keys
>> between the tools if needed.
> 
> Does the new TB implementation support TOFU? If so, you lose your TOFU
> historical data and identity assertions when you would export/import to
> a different OpenPGP implementation. That'd be a shame. Maybe there's a
> need for a standardised interchange format for that.

TB chose (unfortunately in my eyes) to currently only support explicit
trust using their own trust handling. I hope that future versions will
support other methods.

-Patrick



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