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Re: [openpgp] How to re-launch the OpenPGP WG

DataPacRat <datapacrat@gmail.com> Fri, 13 March 2015 19:51 UTC

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Cc: Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>, Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.net>, openpgp@ietf.org
Subject: Re: [openpgp] How to re-launch the OpenPGP WG
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On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord@mit.edu> wrote:
> Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> writes:
>> On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 04:52, calestyo@scientia.net said:

>>> 1) More general things
>>> - The WG should consider whether to just bring OpenPGP up to date... or
>>>   whether to completely overhaul or even re-design it.
>>
>> The please give the thing another name.  Recall the outcry whn I removed
>> PGP-2 support from 2.1.
>>
>>> - The basic meshed web of trust must obviously be retained, but apart
>>
>> OpenPGP does not define the Web of Trust.  There is no standard for it.
>
> This was explicitly out of scope from the former OpenPGP WG.  I think
> that was a GOOD THING, and I believe it should remain out of scope.
> IMHO we shouldn't define how OpenPGP is used, only what it inputs and
> outputs.

I'm interested in certain aspects of Webs of Trust, such as their
potential to overcome certain problematic aspects of centralized
Certificate Authorities. If this new OpenPGP WG won't be a suitable
place to discuss such possibilities, then what will be?


Thank you for your time,
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DataPacRat
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