Hi Jeff, I think a more appropriate venue for this type of discussion would be the OpenPGP Mailing List. See https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/openpgp
Kind regards, Wiktor >Hello, > > I was thinking, it's time for the OpenPGP standard to be updated with a >shorter form for the parts of inline messages that indicate a message is >signed and/or encrypted, to make it more useful for signing and/or encrypting >messages on services that limit the number of chars per message. For example, >a lot of Mastodon instances of the ActivityPub Fediverse, limit message length >to 500 chars. It's a lot to give up a large fraction of the message char >length for the following openpgp bits: > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA512 >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >That's 108 characters just for OpenPGP. If that could be abbreviated, that >would save some precious chars for people's actual messages. I realize that >gnupg devels don't own the standard, but have to simply implement the >standard, but I thought you all might be in a position to advocate such a >change with whoever maintains the standard. > >So, for example, maybe something like: > >--BPSM-- >H: SHA512 >--BPSG-- >--EPSG-- > >Which reduces the total char count down to 39 chars (of course, not counting >the actual encrypted hash) at least with SHA512 as the hash - of course, it >would be variable length because the hash abbreviation might be longer or >shorter for other hashes. > >Sorry if this has been previously discussed on the mailing list - the list >server does not provide a search function, and I couldn't find this in the >gnupg FAQ, or doing a web search for "shorter pgp signature". > >It does occur to me another approach would be to attach signatures to such >posts as an .asc file or .sig file, but as that may not always be an available >solution for everyone, it really seems like shortening the openpgp inline text >delimiters could be helpful in a lot of cases. > _______________________________________________ Gnupg-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-devel
