Re: OPENPGP URI PROPOSAL

2015-05-22 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 22/05/2015 5:21 am, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: On Thu 2015-05-21 11:59:07 -0400, mofo syne wrote: You might see a few copies around. This one is edited and streamlined with some advice from Hasimir to help keep this proposal focused. This is mirrored in here

Re: OPENPGP URI PROPOSAL

2015-05-22 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Thu 2015-05-21 18:46:52 -0400, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: On 2015-05-21 15:21, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: The example you give toward the end of the spec (uri handlers in web browsers) is an important example for arguing why something like this is concretely useful. Have you tried to

Re: OPENPGP URI PROPOSAL

2015-05-21 Thread Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
On 2015-05-21 15:21, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: On Thu 2015-05-21 11:59:07 -0400, mofo syne wrote: You might see a few copies around. This one is edited and streamlined with some advice from Hasimir to help keep this proposal focused. This is mirrored in here

Re: OPENPGP URI PROPOSAL

2015-05-21 Thread mofo syne
So what are data uri classified as then? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme Because this is based off datauri, in terms of structure. So since datauri works, I'm inclined to think that there isn't any technical restriction to including content within a uri context as long as the

Re: OPENPGP URI PROPOSAL

2015-05-21 Thread mofo syne
Something that's mostly limited to web browsers and a couple of email clients. It's meant for including data in-line in web pages, not as separate documents, and has pretty close to nil adoption in the rest of the ecosystem. I'm not sure you need to wait for browsers to adopt this standard for

Re: OPENPGP URI PROPOSAL

2015-05-21 Thread Robert J. Hansen
So what are data uri classified as then? Something that's mostly limited to web browsers and a couple of email clients. It's meant for including data in-line in web pages, not as separate documents, and has pretty close to nil adoption in the rest of the ecosystem. Adopting a special OpenPGP

Re: OPENPGP URI PROPOSAL

2015-05-21 Thread Robert J. Hansen
This proposal is to provide an alternative to the openpgp block messages, in the form of a uri ( e.g. `http://` ). The format of a URI is, generally, mechanism:address for that mechanism. For instance, email has a URI scheme: mailto:r...@sixdemonbag.org?subject=URI%20schemes FTP has

Re: OPENPGP URI PROPOSAL

2015-05-21 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Thu 2015-05-21 11:59:07 -0400, mofo syne wrote: You might see a few copies around. This one is edited and streamlined with some advice from Hasimir to help keep this proposal focused. This is mirrored in here http://www.reddit.com/r/GnuPG/comments/36lmih/i_wonder_if_there_is_a_gpg_uri/

OPENPGP URI PROPOSAL

2015-05-21 Thread mofo syne
*=OPENPGP URI PROPOSAL=## Brief/Objective * This proposal is to provide an alternative to the openpgp block messages, in the form of a uri ( e.g. `http://` ). This would make such messages more web friendly, as well as taking advantage

Re: OPENPGP URI PROPOSAL

2015-05-21 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 22/05/2015 1:59 am, mofo syne wrote: You might see a few copies around. This one is edited and streamlined with some advice from Hasimir to help keep this proposal focused. For the benefit of the rest of the list, Hasimir is my IRC handle on freenode and a few other places. An /ns info