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Re: [openpgp] Remarks on Direct Key Self-signatures

Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> Thu, 30 June 2022 21:55 UTC

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Subject: Re: [openpgp] Remarks on Direct Key Self-signatures
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On Wed 2022-06-08 19:51:23 +0200, Paul Schaub wrote:
> Right now (for v4), implementations have to inspect a number of 
> signatures already to determine key flags or algorithm preferences. 

It's also not just key flags and algorithm preferences.  I handled a
surprising and confusing bug report this week about key expiration
times:

   https://bugs.debian.org/1013288

My conclusion there was that a technically-sophisticated user was
tripped up by the strange interaction between key expiration subpackets
across multiple user ID self-sigs, and their interactions (user ID A was
"expired" until user ID B was merged into the certificate, at which
point user ID A is no longer "expired").

> The new proposal simplifies this and is even backwards compatible afaict.

The proposal to locate all of these preference/expiration-style
subpackets for v5 certificates *only* in a direct key signature avoids
any such confusion.  It is simpler, and it is backwards-compatible, as
Paul says.

        --dkg

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