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Re: [openpgp] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-wouters-dane-openpgp-00.txt (fwd)

Paul Wouters <paul@nohats.ca> Thu, 18 July 2013 19:21 UTC

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From: Paul Wouters <paul@nohats.ca>
To: Andrey Jivsov <openpgp@brainhub.org>
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Subject: Re: [openpgp] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-wouters-dane-openpgp-00.txt (fwd)
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On Thu, 18 Jul 2013, Andrey Jivsov wrote:

>>> 2. Given that the size of the record is very important when stored in
>>> DNS records, it's odd to see that ECC OpenPGP keys are not even
>>> mentioned.
>> 
>> I specifically did not want to limit the record to any particular type.
>> I just wanted it to support RFC OpenPGP compliant keys. Some people
>> don't want to use ECC (for legal other other reasons). Others don't
>> want to use ElGamal, DSA, RSA, etc. There is no reason for this draft
>> to distinguish and force people to pick a specific key type.
>
> I agree that support for all keys is one way to do this, but this intention 
> is unclear from the draft-wouters-dane-openpgp-00.txt: if one mentions RFC 
> 4880 but not RFC 6637, it can be interpreted as the exclusion of ECC keys.

I was simply not aware of RFC 6637. I will add a reference to it in the
document. Thanks!

Paul

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