WKD shall we add distributing multible pubkeys? (Re: WKD: returns only one pubkey (and why))

Ingo Klöcker kloecker at kde.org
Thu Dec 15 13:42:06 CET 2022


On Donnerstag, 15. Dezember 2022 10:43:06 CET Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> == Ways to deliver several pubkeys via WKD
> Again thanks for the technical ideas.
> 
> Two more ideas:
>  a) Allow for several pubkeys to be returned, but indicate which one
>     is the "primary" one among the active ones. Could be the order,
>     could be something else. However should be easy to use from the client
>     side (and is potentially not backwards compatible :/ ).
>  b) Add an URL somehow (maybe as pubkey user attribute) for the other
> pubkeys to be fetched.

Sounds like you want to use the "Preferred Key Server" signature subpacket for 
this.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4880#section-5.2.3.18

Regards,
Ingo
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