Re: [openpgp] Expected client behaviour ambiguity in signature verification

Justus Winter <justus@sequoia-pgp.org> Fri, 08 July 2022 10:53 UTC

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Subject: Re: [openpgp] Expected client behaviour ambiguity in signature verification
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Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li> writes:

> I ended up dropping the check from onak as a result

Alternatively, keyservers (anyone, really) could fix the digest prefix.

Best,
Justus