>>>>> Alberto Luaces <[email protected]> writes:
> Colin Baxter <[email protected]> writes:
>> Hello Alberto,
>>>>>>> Alberto Luaces <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>> > Colin Baxter <[email protected]> writes: >> Doesn't autocrypt
>> use the Web Key Directory (WKD) for PGP keys? >> This seems a
>> pain to set up <https://wiki.gnupg.org/WKD>.
>>
>> > AFAIK it doesn't, since everything is encoded into the
>> message's > headers. I have been using it without any WKD setup.
>>
>> > Nevertheless, that fact doesn't rule out that it can be used,
>> but > I never heard about it.
>>
>> Ok, my mistake. My question is getting to be a little off-topic,
>> but if WKD is not used then how is the key for a new recipient
>> automatically located?
> No problem. It is a discovery protocol, so it grows stronger —so
> to say— as far as the communication evolves. You start sending a
> message in the clear, but offer your key in the headers, so it is
> automatically collected and used by your interlocutor in the
> following messages. Of course you have also to have an
> out-of-band mean of verifying the identity of the other party.
> Maybe I lost some details or explained it incorrectly, so here you
> will find the idea: https://autocrypt.org/examples.html
I like the idea of sending the key in a header, with subsequent
automatic exchanges. That is very nice. :-)
Best wishes,
Colin.
