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

[Jon Callas <[e-mail]>]

> On Mar 12, 2015, at 11:01 AM, Werner Koch <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 12 Mar 2015 14:38, [e-mail] said:
> 
>>> - A v5 key format.  Prepare for forthcoming public key algorithms.
>> 
>> What sorts of changes do you see being needed here?
> 
> In the past we collected several ideas for a v5 key format.  We need to
> revisit the list archives.  IIRC, the plan was to first wait for the
> outcome of the SHA-3 competition.

There were other things we talked about as well in V5. I think that connected and separate, a hash-independent way to do a fingerprint is called for. There was a nice proposal for that in the archives -- algorithm-id:hash-value -- the abbreviated one.

> 
>> that work is usually done under this WG as well.  Do you see moving
>> more in that direction, or a full-on new RFC coming out of proposed
>> work?
> 
> Eventually a single new RFC should be done - for a v5 format this will
> be needed anyway.

Or not -- it's a decision of the new working group.

We traditionally put everything into one document. That has a lot of advantages. There's essentially one place to check. Other WGs -- for example, S/MIME -- have a lot of separate documents. That means they can work on things in parallel, but makes it harder to wind through the mass of documents.

I think more than one but less than fifty (which is only a slight exaggeration -- the last time I checked there were over 35 S/MIME documents) is a good compromise.

But yeah, I think you'd want to revise 4880 for new stuff. There are, however, a number of ways to organize that.

	Jon