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Re: Support WKD (and WKS) for @debian.org email addresses?



Guilhem Moulin writes ("Re: Support WKD (and WKS) for @debian.org email addresses?"):
> On Wed, 07 Nov 2018 at 18:20:16 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Personally I think the hash is bizarre.  Why make this protocol depend
> > on an obsolete hash function ?  One could just url-encode the email
> > address.  The server could deal with case-folding etc.
> 
> Dunno if you'll find the arguments convincing, but FWIW this was brought up to
> gnupg-devel in May 2016: see https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2016-May/031068.html
> and follow-ups in that thread.

Huh.

Well, I followed the breadcrumbs to the spec and found an Internet
Draft.  So I decided that the IETF's openpgp list was the right place
to make my comments.

https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/openpgp/current/msg09100.html

Ian.

-- 
Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>   These opinions are my own.

If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is
a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.


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