I think it makes a lot of sense to be able to associate more things with OpenPGP keys. I'm particularly interested in seeing OTR keys and XMPP identities in OpenPGP keys.
.hc On 01/23/2014 05:50 PM, Steve Jones wrote: > I've been thinking about UIDs in keys, rfc4880 section 5.1 says that by > convention a UID is an rfc2822 email address but this is not a > requirement[1]. Gnupg does enforce that restriction unless you explicitly > disable it. It would seem to make sense to include other strings that can > identify a user, many people have various URLs which could be said to relate > to their identity, Facebook accounts, blogs etc... It could potentially be > useful to be able to associate a key with these other identities, i.e. if you > get an email purporting to be from someone you only know on a webforum it > would be useful to be able to verify this. I'm curious what other people on > this list think of this. > > > [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4880#section-5.11 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users > -- PGP fingerprint: 5E61 C878 0F86 295C E17D 8677 9F0F E587 374B BE81
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