On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 10:33:12PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 07:07:40PM +0200, Stefan Claas wrote: > > Robert J. Hansen wrote: > > > > > > We now have the situation that either parents or teachers, etc. can > > > > choose between a software which allows UID-less public key > > > > generation, for their minors / students, themselves... > > > > > > They are free to use whatever identifier they like for a UID, even > > > just the key ID. A UID-free certificate is in no way required for > > > user privacy. > > > > > > You're being dishonest. I hate to say that, but I believe it's true. > > > You insist on pretending that you're the only one concerned about > > > privacy and that UID-free certificates are necessary for privacy of > > > personally identifying information. The reality is the UID system in > > > no way requires personally identifying information and everyone you're > > > accusing of not caring about privacy cares a great deal about it. > > > > > > You're being dishonest. Please stop. > > > > Mind you, I have only asked that GnuPG should support the import and > > processing of UID-less public key blocks and did not requested that > > this should be a default behaviour in the key generation process. > > And the answer has been given: because those blocks violate the OpenPGP > standard and, as I understand Robert J. Hansen (and I apologize to him > if I'm putting the wrong words into his mouth), his position is that > there is no reason for this violation to exist at all, there is no > reason for UID-less key blocks to exist at all, so GnuPG is quite right > in following the OpenPGP standard and not accepting them.
...and he actually said pretty much that in 06a65d70-6d01-6de0-ec03-c841d64c8...@sixdemonbag.org :) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13
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