WKD: returns only one pubkey (and why)
Erich Eckner
gnupg at eckner.net
Tue Dec 13 17:13:55 CET 2022
On Tue, 13 Dec 2022, Simon Josefsson via Gnupg-devel wrote:
> This thread was useful to me to understand that there really are two
> conflicting desired features here:
>
> 1) Use WDK to map ONE email address to ONE public key to use for
> email.
>
> 2) Use WDK to find ALL public keys for an email address.
>
[ ... snip ... ]
> However maybe what we can achieve is that WDK could ALSO cater to the
> use-case of 2). What do you think?
just a quick comment: your proposal looks ok to me for WKD - but what
about WKS? One would need a protocol to remove "old" keys from the "all
keys" bundle. Does WKS already come with a mechanism for that? Or does it
currently rely on replacing the old key with a new one?
[ ... snip ... ]
>
> /Simon
>
regards,
Erich
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