Infrastructure support for GnuPG post-quantum keys

Michael Richardson mcr+ietf at sandelman.ca
Mon Jan 6 19:14:37 CET 2025


Werner Koch via Gnupg-users <gnupg-users at gnupg.org> wrote:
    > There is one remaining reason for having a network of synced
    > keyservers: To distribute revocations.

    > Lookup of keys by anything other than a fingerprint has no more
    > justification.  And for that feature a simple distibuted storage for
    > revocations would be better than the complex keyserver software we have
    > today.

So if we mapped key IDs to convenient directory sized blocks, we could just
use rsync?

    > - Distribute the key along with your mail address using the Web Key
    > directory.

aren't there also proposals to do this via special mime types?

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Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF at sandelman.ca>   . o O ( IPv6 IøT consulting )
           Sandelman Software Works Inc, Ottawa and Worldwide




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