AW: Web Key Directory handling of IDN

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Mon Nov 7 20:17:19 CET 2016


On Mon,  7 Nov 2016 13:58, Juergen.Schaepker at giepa.de said:

> The current draft WKD will only be able to find non-ASCII address
> hashes by pure chance. MUAs can look for the hashes of
> Öyvind at something.net and öyvind at something.net and only for one WKD
> will return a result.

Well, if a user decides to use non-ASCII adresses they need to live with
the strict but impractical rules of RFC5322 which says that case folding
may or may not happen.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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