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Re: [openpgp] Web Key Directory I-D -07

Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> Thu, 15 November 2018 11:25 UTC

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From: Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>
To: azul <azul@riseup.net>
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Subject: Re: [openpgp] Web Key Directory I-D -07
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On Thu, 15 Nov 2018 10:13, azul@riseup.net said:

> One example would be using 'azul+conference_name@riseup.net' to register
> to a conference.
> It's low overhead. I can just come up with a addition to my email

Right, and we more or less agreed that this is a good and useful
extension.  I merely don't think that it should go into the protocol,
because it is a MUA thing.  GnuPG will very likely help MUAs by taking
care to strip of such sub-addresses when looking for keys in a remote
directory [1].


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner



[1] See
<https://dev.gnupg.org/rG6b9f772914624cc673ba26d49b6e3adc32dd7e0a>
for a start


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