On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 07:39 +0200, Werner Koch wrote: > Hello! > > I'd like to have a clarification of the signature subpacket > > 5.2.3.22. Signer's User ID <SNIP> > OTOH, for applications it makes more sense to have just the vanilla > mail address (mailbox@domain) here. This would make it easier to > compare a mail's From address to the actual signature. As I actually never really took time to read the full spec, I didn't come across of this before, but this is indeed ideal for making keys distributed in nature. "Solution" for making it distributed would be: http://www.imc.org/ietf-openpgp/mail-archive/msg11035.html I haven't seen the agenda yet and it is not online, but it might be interresting to have a chat about this. The slot is monday morning from 09:00 - 10:00... Question to Werner: does gnupg support the above item, if not can we add it, and secondly could we have gnupg then derive the keyserver from it as I noted before? (read: want a patch?) Greets, Jeroen
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