Draft Update

Ludovic Courtès ludo at gnu.org
Sun Jul 27 21:14:07 CEST 2008


Hi,

Duane <duane at e164.org> writes:

> Ok, I've made some updates, firstly removing specific references to DNS
> since this is no longer specifically meant to be for DNS and other
> changes to remove references to using the user id field, and instead
> using user attributes to have the information in a format much more
> suitable for computers, this makes more sense to me than a blob of
> string doesn't need to be split up and parsed to extract the information.
>
> http://open-pgp.info/wiki/index.php?title=Standardisation_of_OpenPGP_Keys_for_Server_Purposes
>
> Is there anything I've missed or overlooked at all?

We had a discussion earlier where Daniel Kahn Gillmor proposed (ab)using
user IDs in OpenPGP keys in a way similar to what you propose:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.network.gnutls.general/802/focus=824

Thanks,
Ludovic.






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