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Re: [openpgp] key distribution by email strategy

Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> Fri, 11 December 2020 20:05 UTC

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From: Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>
To: Heiko Schaefer <heiko.schaefer@posteo.de>
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Subject: Re: [openpgp] key distribution by email strategy
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On Fri, 11 Dec 2020 13:22, Heiko Schaefer said:

> The autocrypt standard is established, and quiet a few projects support
> it (https://autocrypt.org/dev-status.html).

Autocrypt is bound to mail use cases and can't be used in other
environments.  Remember that mail is only one use-case; there are many
other important use cases.

Key discovery has never been in the scope of OpenPGP.  The standard
provided means to implement systems but does not enforce the use of one.
That limited scope worked very well over the last 23 years.

Noet that I do not say that such topics ares out of scope for this
mailing list; merely for the OpenPGP standard.  In fact, over all the
years this list has also been used as an implementers forum.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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