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Re: [openpgp] Overhauling User IDs / Standardizing User Attributes (was: Re: Scoped trust (signatures))

Jon Callas <joncallas@icloud.com> Thu, 28 June 2018 01:44 UTC

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From: Jon Callas <joncallas@icloud.com>
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Subject: Re: [openpgp] Overhauling User IDs / Standardizing User Attributes (was: Re: Scoped trust (signatures))
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Forgive me, Leo, but I don’t understand what problem you’re trying to solve, but I’m going to say that’s my fault. Nonetheless, could you reiterate for those of us who weren’t paying proper attention before?

UserIDs are intentionally a huge hand wave. It’s an arbitrary UTF-8 field. Put whatever you want into it. Yes, by convention it’s an email address, but even at the time that that was common it was convention only. When I was with PGP Corporation, we made software signing keys that merely said they were software signing keys, as well as other keys that had no email address, but a text description of what they were.

There’s no reason you can’t put whatever you want in some other sub-packet or what.

	Jon

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