After discussions with people in JMAP/CALEX people I am looking to add JWKs to JSContact.
Previously JSContact followed vCard in representing keys as URIs, frequently data URIs. This is really a bit of a pain if you are wanting to use a JSContact to launch an application with the key material relevant to it. In particular, it is a real pain for OpenPGP because we don't just use OpenPGP for encrypting emails. It is also used for signing git commits and many other things. And in those contexts, it is not enough to have a raw key, you (may) need the key/subkey chain. I am not an OpenPGP expert or a Git expert so looking for ideas on this. I think we can all agree that it would be rather nice if Alice can join an Open Source development effort by providing them with a single identifier that is descriptive of all the credentials related to their coding work, commit signing, SSH, code signing etc. etc.
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