On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 09:14:37AM +0100, Stefan Claas <spam.trap.mailing.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Regarding a multi-purpose key and WKD. I mentioned here already > that a multi-purpose usage key can be used for other tasks as well, > besides popular email. I know that keys can be used for things other than email, but the point I was making is that WKD is only for email. It's entire reason for existing is to automatically and reliably find the key that corresponds to an email address. It has no other purpose. But I can see that what you really want is to be able to use WKD for other purposes. But I don't see how that would work well. I assume that all existing WKD clients are email clients. I think you are suggesting that other types of system that are not email-related start to adopt WKD for locating keys. That sounds reasonable. Perhaps they will. But I think that it would look strange to require a label for a key that looks like an email address but isn't, in order to obtain a key. I can't help thinking that just publishing the URL of the key would be much much simpler. Simpler still, and more automatable, would be to come up with your own proposal for placing keys in a website's .well-known directory and not have anything at all to do with labels that look like email addresses but aren't. I can't help thinking that if you use labels that look like addresses but aren't, people are likely to assume that it is an email address and will try to send emails to it, and be thwarted. It breaks the principle of least astonishment. But maybe that won't be a problem, depending on the nature of these other systems. cheers, raf _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users