Ian Goldberg <[email protected]> writes: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 02:19:22AM +0100, Ximin Luo wrote: >> Hi, are there any plans to integrate OTR keys with PGP? (c.f. how >> monkeysphere integrates SSH keys with PGP). >> >> It's good that crypto products don't also try to provide a PKI and >> reimplement the wheel, but then they should actually *use* existing >> ones to fill this gap! > > This comes up on the list now and again. ;-) > > One big problem is that there's no way to bind the PGP key for > "[email protected]" to the AIM ID "angrybob". Many people already do sign
Sure, but that's not the hard part. When talking to [email protected], I often know that I'm trying to talk to [email protected]. having the FP signed by another key, and clicking yes to 'do you want to allow [email protected] to sign for [email protected]' uould be great. > their OTR keys with their PGP keys, so if you (the person, not your > software) knows that [email protected] is the same person as angrybob, you > can tell your OTR client that you've verified the keys. But there's not > a good way to do this automatically. People could also put a jid in a uid field in a key.
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