Re: keys require a user-id

[rjh]

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If and when people insisting on UID-less keys want to communicate with me, I'll tell them the same thing I told users of Imad Faiad's PGP 6.5.8ckt builds, Disastry's PGP builds, and many more:

"I'm sorry, but you're not confirming to the specification. If you wish for me to make sense of your messages, please resend in a conformant message."

The community has literally been dealing with devs breaking the standard for 25 years. We have learned from bitter experience how important standards conformance is.

UIDless certs will get the same response as people using TIGER192 as a hash.

On May 15, 2020 7:36 PM, Stefan Claas <s...@300baud.de> wrote:

Peter Pentchev wrote:

> On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 10:54:32PM +0200, Stefan Claas wrote:

> > You know what, the most interesting thing of this ML for me is that
> > when people, do a request or suggestion the old guard is always
> > there to defend some standard and are not accepting that a new
> > product on the OpenPGP market, with a new feature included, add an
> > enrichment to a given standard, which people may like to use and
> > appreciate.
>
> OK, but *how* is it an enrichment? What does a UID-less key provide
> over a randomly-generated UID? Why go to the bother of supporting a
> new special case when you can get the same result in another way,
> with zero additional code in any of the existing implementations and
> only a couple more lines of code in the special client that will have
> to generate a random UID?

Fact is this function is available for users of OpenPGP software. We
should better think of how this will pan out in the future, if users
start to use OpenPGP software with UID-less public keyblocks and how
GnuPG users can interact with them, or not?

Regards
Stefan

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