[openpgp] Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-openpgp-replacementkey-05.txt

[Andrew Gallagher <[e-mail]>]

Hi, all.

I have made several changes to the Key Replacement draft to address concerns recently raised both on the list and privately, and to fix up various nits. These have now been published on the datatracker as draft-ietf-openpgp-replacementkey-05 (see below).

The terminology changes alone have touched a significant number of the lines in the draft, however the majority of the changes are editorial. There have been a few small BCP14 changes (MUST/SHOULD), but none to the wire format.

The following questions raised by dkg remain open. I asked for other opinions, but nobody else has yet responded:

* The size and conditional inclusion of the target record length field (currently 2 octets and unconditional).
* Whether to specify (here or elsewhere?) that all unknown revocation reasons are hard.

I also have not yet made dkg’s suggested changes to the structure of the examples section. I believe I have addressed the remainder of dkg’s feedback, as well as all of Aron’s and Falko’s (but please feel free to correct me!).

In addition, there are two tickets open in the issue tracker [1] for earlier design suggestions to enable finer-grained controls of encryption subkey selection. The rough consensus for both was “won’t do”, and I am not aware of this consensus having changed in the meantime.

If you have submitted feedback, please check that it has either been addressed, or is listed above. If someone else’s feedback is listed above and you have not yet expressed an opinion, please feel free to do so. If any feedback has not been satisfactorily addressed, or if you have new feedback about any other matter, please let me know.

Thanks,
A

[1] https://gitlab.com/andrewgdotcom/openpgp-replacementkey/-/issues/


> On 17 Aug 2025, at 15:08, [e-mail] wrote:
> 
> Internet-Draft draft-ietf-openpgp-replacementkey-05.txt is now available. It
> is a work item of the Open Specification for Pretty Good Privacy (OPENPGP) WG
> of the IETF.
> 
>   Title:   OpenPGP Key Replacement
>   Authors: Daphne Shaw
>            Andrew Gallagher
>   Name:    draft-ietf-openpgp-replacementkey-05.txt
>   Pages:   23
>   Dates:   2025-08-17
> 
> Abstract:
> 
>   This document specifies a method in OpenPGP to suggest a replacement
>   for an expired, revoked, or deprecated primary key.
> 
> The IETF datatracker status page for this Internet-Draft is:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-openpgp-replacementkey/
> 
> There is also an HTMLized version available at:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-openpgp-replacementkey-05
> 
> A diff from the previous version is available at:
> https://author-tools.ietf.org/iddiff?url2=draft-ietf-openpgp-replacementkey-05
> 
> Internet-Drafts are also available by rsync at:
> rsync.ietf.org::internet-drafts
> 
> 
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