Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple"
ianG <iang@iang.org> Mon, 23 March 2015 20:03 UTC
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Subject: Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple"
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On 17/03/2015 12:53 pm, Wyllys Ingersoll wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 3:03 AM Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com > <mailto:tbray@textuality.com>> wrote: > > I have repeatedly found it useful, even in recent times, to > cut/paste ASCII-armored messages on my mobile. Am I a Neanderthal? > > > No! This was exactly my first thought also. ASCII Armor format is > extremely useful for passing the messages from app-to-app via the system > clipboard using copy-and-paste. As a mobile PGP developer, there are > situations where this is the most convenient way to move the PGP > message/key from a non-PGP enabled app (like most standard mobile mail > clients) and into an app that can decode/decrypt it correctly. > > If ASCII Armor is to be deprecated, I would hope that we at least > replace it with something else that can be easily copied-and-pasted. Ascii armour is also very useful for plaintext keys, which make an appearance in contracts that distribute their own PKI. Which also get signed inline with an ascii-armoured signature. Also very useful. Now, these things don't get cut&pasted much, if at all, although to be fair that was an expectation when I designed them. But they do get printed out; the contracts have been in court (twice to my knowledge) and their ability to be printed out and looked at by judges has been critical to their acceptance as contracts. In short my 'requirement' would be printable keys and sigs. I don't so much care if it is 'ascii-armoured' in the current form or not, but ... something would be nice. iang (For those unsure what I'm talking about, there is a form of legal contract called the Ricardian Contract which I wrote about here a long long time ago: http://iang.org/papers/ricardian_contract.html This is now having a bit of a renaissance in Bitcoin / crypto-currency scenes as various businesses are discovering they want to couple legal prose into transactions and blockchains and whathaveyou. End of obligatory plug.)
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- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Werner Koch
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Wyllys Ingersoll
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Peter Gutmann
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Jon Callas
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Stephen Paul Weber
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Stephen Paul Weber
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Werner Koch
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" David Leon Gil
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" David Shaw
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" David Leon Gil
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Peter Gutmann
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Peter Gutmann
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" David Shaw
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Christoph Anton Mitterer
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Jon Callas
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Jon Callas
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Tim Bray
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Peter Gutmann
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Werner Koch
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Wyllys Ingersoll
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Nicholas Cole
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Phill
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Derek Atkins
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Stephen Paul Weber
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Stephen Paul Weber
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Stephen Paul Weber
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Wyllys Ingersoll
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Derek Atkins
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" David Shaw
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Derek Atkins
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Wyllys Ingersoll
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Stephen Paul Weber
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Phillip Hallam-Baker
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Phillip Hallam-Baker
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Werner Koch
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Peter Gutmann
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Werner Koch
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Phillip Hallam-Baker
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Phillip Hallam-Baker
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Christoph Anton Mitterer
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Christoph Anton Mitterer
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Derek Atkins
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Derek Atkins
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Phillip Hallam-Baker
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Stephan Somogyi
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Peter Gutmann
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Phillip Hallam-Baker
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Gregory Maxwell
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Phillip Hallam-Baker
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Gregory Maxwell
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Phillip Hallam-Baker
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Peter Gutmann
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Phillip Hallam-Baker
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Gregory Maxwell
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Phillip Hallam-Baker
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Christoph Anton Mitterer
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Christoph Anton Mitterer
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" ianG
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Phillip Hallam-Baker
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" ianG
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" ianG
- Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple" Stephen Paul Weber