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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/14/2025 20:23:12, Andrew Gallagher
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<pre wrap="" class="moz-quote-pre">On 14 Feb 2025, at 13:12, Klaus Ethgen <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:klaus+gnupg@ethgen.ch"><klaus+gnupg@ethgen.ch></a> wrote:
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Do I get something wrong? That WKS system is used by Gnupg and not by a
Browser...?
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It’s used by many openpgp clients, some of which do run in the browser.
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WKS is an oddity in DNS that (besides this random inclusion in PGP)
seemed to be<br>
entirely limited to certain Enterprise deployments of various
software suites.<br>
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Many other protocols have worked very well with naming conventions
like<br>
"ftp.department.foo.edu" and "mail.foo.edu" . But yeah,
browser-focused DNS<br>
implementations tend to even lack the ability to look up MX records
.<br>
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