Wouldn't this be a case that we could use a KSK to get a "short name" to map the e-mail address to? The KSK could point to the longer SSK.
This would allow you to e-mail the much more memorable dbkr at dbkr-machine (Although I had doubts that KSKs are secure, in a prior thread it was insisted that they are much more difficult to forge in the .7 architecture. ) -Colin On Jun 22, 2006, at 2:23 PM, Dave Baker wrote: > Hi, > > So a Freemail address needs to express an SSK public key at which a > 'mailsite' > can be fetched containing all the data necessary to set up some > communication. The problem is that Freenet keys are case sensitive, > and email > addresses aren't. My mail client mangles the address to lowercase, > meaning > you can't just put the SSK into the address. > > Can anyone think of a (ideally standard) way of encoding an SSK to > case > insensitive ASCII? I'm currently using Hex encoding, but that makes > Freemail > addresses like: > > dbkr at 667265656e65743a53534b40317574304a6b7a57614c6b672d556b4d44704a684 > a5a65646332346672306445362d74394d7a7e43517e552c54475668325272505564614 > c505a775858454d6f51737177376f4e36634964704c73794f61355974584e382c41514 > 1424141452f.freemail > > Not great. > > I don't really want to write another encoding scheme. > > Dave > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech
