[mailop] OpenPGP WKD URL

[Jakob Bohm]

On 2/14/2025 20:23:12, Andrew Gallagher via Gnupg-users wrote:
> On 14 Feb 2025, at 13:12, Klaus Ethgen<klaus+gnupg at ethgen.ch> wrote:
>> Do I get something wrong? That WKS system is used by Gnupg and not by a
>> Browser...?
> It’s used by many openpgp clients, some of which do run in the browser.
>
> A
WKS is an oddity in DNS that (besides this random inclusion in PGP) 
seemed to be
entirely limited to certain Enterprise deployments of various software 
suites.

Many other protocols have worked very well with naming conventions like
"ftp.department.foo.edu" and "mail.foo.edu" .  But yeah, browser-focused DNS
implementations tend to even lack the ability to look up MX records .

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