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Re: [openpgp] Device Certificates for RFC4880bis

"Derek Atkins" <derek@ihtfp.com> Fri, 12 February 2016 12:32 UTC

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Cc: Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>
Subject: Re: [openpgp] Device Certificates for RFC4880bis
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On Fri, February 12, 2016 3:11 am, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 22:43, derek@ihtfp.com said:
>
>> +Implementations MUST accept encryption-only primary keys without a
>> +signature.  It also MUST allow importing any key accompanied either by
>> +a certification signature or a signature on itself.  It MAY accept
>> +signature-capable primary keys without an accompanying signature.
>
> Why do you want a MUST accept/import here?  I think it would be better
> to relax it to SHOULD so that implementations which do not want to
> support operations on device certifications can still claim to be
> OpenPGP compliant.  Having a need to support encryption only primary
> keys does not make sense to all implementations.

OOPS.  You are absolutely correct.  This was an oversight when I did a
cut-and-paste from my previous document.  The MUST made sense when device
certificates were a standalone document, but you're right that this should
be a SHOULD now that it's integrated into 4880bis.

Would you like an updated patch?  Or just change it in your copy?

Thanks,

>
> Shalom-Salam,
>
>    Werner

-derek

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