Replacement Key
David Shaw <dshaw@akamai.com> Tue, 28 August 2001 15:47 UTC
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From: David Shaw <dshaw@akamai.com>
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Subject: Replacement Key
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I welcome any comment on the replacement key draft that just got posted. The point, in case you haven't seen the draft yet, is a way for a user to specify the key that replaces a revoked or expired key. General purpose implementations can use this information to use the new key (presumably with a warning) if a user requests the old one. It would also be useful to automatically fetch the new key from keyservers. Keyservers could use this to present the proper key (again, with a warning) if an expired/revoked key is requested. In particular I'd like to hear opinions on the variable sized subpacket. There are other variable sized subpackets in OpenPGP, but I wonder if this one might not save us much. David -- David Shaw | Technical Lead <dshaw@akamai.com> | Enterprise Content Delivery 617-250-3028 | Akamai Technologies
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