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Re: [openpgp] Overhauling User IDs / Standardizing User Attributes

Derek Atkins <derek@ihtfp.com> Fri, 29 June 2018 18:57 UTC

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From: Derek Atkins <derek@ihtfp.com>
To: Leo Gaspard <ietf=40leo.gaspard.ninja@dmarc.ietf.org>
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Subject: Re: [openpgp] Overhauling User IDs / Standardizing User Attributes
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Leo Gaspard <ietf=40leo.gaspard.ninja@dmarc.ietf.org> writes:

> Well, User IDs are not easier to work with than User Attributes. The
> only difference is that User IDs have been defined to be free-form
> UTF-8, while the only User Attribute that has been defined (up to now)
> is the picture type. And thus the only User Attribute that's easy to
> work with is the picture User Attribute… which sounds logical.
>
> OTOH, supposing my idea was introduced, then the additionally-defined
> User Attributes would become mandatorily supported in v5 keys (among
> other reasons because there would no longer be any User ID), and there
> would be a free-form tag=value type (with both tag and value being UTF-8).

May I point you to the (expired) document,
draft-atkins-openpgp-device-certificates which started down the road of
adding additional Attribute packets.

Would something like that help?

-derek
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