Re: [openpgp] User ID Attribute Subpacket

[Peter Pentchev <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 05:26:36PM +0100, Justus Winter wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 4:35 PM Derek Atkins <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > On Mon, March 4, 2019 10:02 am, Justus Winter wrote:
> > > So your usecase is to have a UserAttribute packet, with a single UserID
> > > subpacket, and one or more Image subpackets, bound by a single signature.
> > > Is that correct?
> >
> > I'm confused by your confusion.  What part of "additional attributes" do
> > you not understand?  I'm not trying to be a PITA here, but I'm honestly
> > not understanding your confusion about what is meant here by what I said.
> >
> > But to answer your question, yes, I want to have a UserID and an Image
> > with one binding signature -- and possibly additional future attribute
> > subpackets, too.
> 
> Well, your proposal is about adding some notation data, and I did not imagine
> you wanting to burden your embedded devices (for which a mere URI as the
> notation data's key is too much) with images.

I believe that by "additional attributes" Derek also means "additional
attribute types" - not just images, but other, not yet defined, types of
attributes, in which to keep additional data.  This might be what you're
missing from his explanations - he wants to have a packet that contains
a user ID and *other* attributes, not necessarily images, that might not
take too much space.

G'luck,
Peter

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