Re: [openpgp] OpenPGP Web Key Directory I-D

[Benjamin Kaduk <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 12:17:50PM +0100, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Fri,  9 Nov 2018 11:50, [e-mail] said:
> 
> > It certainly would allow serving the data from static files.  If you
> > wanted case-insensitivity and can't configure your webserver to smash
> 
> It is not only about the case but about allowed characters in a file
> name.  In particular '/' and depending on file system the length.  Noet
> that '/' is a valid character in the local part of the addrspec.
> 
> > Since you are still in the protocol design phase, you would no doubt
> > welcome implementation and deployment of an alternative simpler
> 
> Nope.  It is in use for more than 2 years.

I feel some obligation to push back on this -- if there is no willingness
to deviate from the deployed implementation, why not just document the
existing implementation behavior as part of the implementation's
documentation and move on?

-Ben

> The only simpler thing which could have been done would be to skip the
> hashing and directly use the z-base-32 encoding.  The only drawback
> would have been that very long addresses won't work on all file systems.
> 
> Changes to the SVR record thing should be possible because I doubt that
> this is widely used (Caesonia specifies it use, though).