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Re: [openpgp] User ID Attribute Subpacket

Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> Fri, 08 March 2019 15:40 UTC

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Subject: Re: [openpgp] User ID Attribute Subpacket
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Hi!

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On Mon,  4 Mar 2019 10:35, derek@ihtfp.com said:

> But to answer your question, yes, I want to have a UserID and an Image
> with one binding signature -- and possibly additional future attribute
> subpackets, too.

May I suggest to add a sample of such a packet to appendix A to avoid
confusion by future implementation work?

> I should note that, having implemented this, the additional code to handle
> this is actually quite small!  You can actually reuse a great deal, so
> really it's just a protocol number and an additional branch.

I concur (although I have not yet come around to implement this in gpg).


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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