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

Is there an upvote button for this?  I even tweeted about this yesterday!

  https://twitter.com/howardjp/status/576473455949967360

The current signed-XML standard is an awful awful thing and having a usable
standard for signed text formats (XML, JSON, whatever) would would make the
implementation a de facto default.

James Howard

On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 10:30 AM, DataPacRat <datapacrat@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 7:57 AM, Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 20:51, datapacrat@gmail.com said:
> >
> >> I'm interested in certain aspects of Webs of Trust, such as their
> >> potential to overcome certain problematic aspects of centralized
> >
> > Using this ML for discussin is IMHO okay but trust modells are not a
> > goal of the OpenPGP standard.  It might turn out that a certain feature
> > would be useful and that would be something which can be put into the
> > standard.
>
> Will the new OpenPGP standard explicitly include some form of
> text-file (or XML, or JSON) format for keys, along the lines of the
> venerable 'BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK'? If so, then as long as it
> includes at least one free-form-text comments field which can be used
> for arbitrary additional data, such as a score indicating exactly how
> much Bayesian trust the key-signer has that the listed key belongs to
> its indicated owner, then that would likely be sufficient to cover the
> cases I'm thinking of. (There is room for some further elaboration,
> such as cryptographically signing said comments, if the general idea
> meets approval.)
>
>
> Thank you for your time,
> --
> DataPacRat
> "Then again, I could be wrong."
>
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