Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in
 <20240420230154.HauOMF4V@steffen%sdaoden.eu>:
 ...
 |But i thing we refer to different drafts now.  I think you are all
 |talking about draft-autocrypt-lamps-protected-headers-02, whereas
 ...

And i want to reiterate that i myself dislike autocrypt as yet one
another way to shit (sorry) masses of unused data into email
headers.  I still think that if you really want to communicate
with one securely then the normal thing is to send an email and
ask for it.  I mean hey, you want to have *encrypted
communication* with another human person, right.  Puh.
Other than that you can lookup keys.
The problem is solely that this automated fetching is shit (sorry)
as of today, except for WKD maybe, and those hkps which still
function, or not at all for S/MIME, that easily.  (And not by
default on German passports, not the one, not the other, and not
fetchable via German DNSSECured DNS records either.)

And all those DNS records which have been invented are the very
same brainfuckers (sorry), because no normal and mentally sane
person can use them, as they require specific DNS record
formatting that those web interfaces that the mentioned persona
has to use do not offer this, and, i guess, will never support.

Compare this with the intellectual penetration of reality that the
old good ones have proven to have, again, by looking at the DKIM
standard.  All you need is a TXT record, and almost everyone will
be able to place this.  DKIM is a good standard.  I have my heavy
doubts on most others.  But that is just me, of course.

I mean, what a pity.  Give me DNSSEC, give me RFC 7250 raw TLS
keys and DKIM certs and some better sort of SMIMEA and OPENPGP
through it, instead of also this .well-known trashbin and CA
certificate pools (get rid of the root server keys altogether
maybe, how about [1] instead, even if US does not like it?),
and more through it.

  [1] https://wander.science/paper/2017_Wander_Rootless_DNS.pdf

--steffen
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|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
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