Hi! I'd like to foster the development of the PKA idea and offer FSFE fellows to install the record for them.
PKA is the Public Key Association and a way to establish validity of keys by means of DNS[1]. It also allows for opportunistic encryption. GnuPG 1.4.3 has support for it. We merely need to add support for some more MUAs. As of now only Sylpheed-Claws has limited support, Mutt will definitley be the next MUA to support. Having a couple of actual entries would really help in testing and thus I'd like to ask the FSFE fellows to participate in this. There is paper on PKA available, but it is only in German: http://g10code.com/docs/pka-intro.de.pdf . I still need to write an English version. The ML [EMAIL PROTECTED] should also carry some discussion about it. With some actual records in the fsfe.org zone we could start experimenting with it. As soon as we have come around to add support to Mutt, I'll create a small howto. What you need to do is sending me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a mail with the subject "PKA record" and your fellowship account name, fingerprint and optionally the URL to retrieve your key. Thus the body should look like this: name: werner fpr: A4D94E92B0986AB5EE9DCD755DE249965B0358A2 uri: finger:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" As a gpg user you should know how to get your fingerprint (FPR), keeping the space gpg prints is fine. The URI line is optional, if you give it, use the URL with the canoncial address of your keys. Many folks use a webpage for this, for them it should be http://xxxx; if you are using only a keyserver, you may use a URI but it is not really needed then. Obviously this mail should be signed so that I have a chance to verify that this mail is actually from you. Please only people with an active fsfe.org account; I can only change this zone file for you. Shalom-Salam, Werner [1] Yes, we all know that DNS is not secure, but lets hope the best and assume that DNSSEC will eventually be deployed.
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