Re: Standardisation of User ID usage for Server Purposes

[David Shaw <dshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 26, 2008, at 12:25 AM, Duane wrote:

> David Shaw wrote:
>
> > No.  You can define anything you like, in any form you like.
> > Basically, think of it as being given a chunk of bytes attached to an
> > OpenPGP key.  You can put anything you want in there, in any format
> > you want, to be parsed however you want.  You completely own the
> > format.  OpenPGP then guarantees that your bytes cannot be tampered
> > with, using the same protection that it uses for regular user ID
> > strings.
>
> I'm stuck at this point. If I specify to use multiple types I'm not  
> sure
> how to easily group the additional information to particular hostnames
> or wildcards.
>
> Would anyone have any suggestions at this point in time?

I'm not suggesting you define multiple OpenPGP user attribute  
packets.  Just one.  Inside that single blob of bytes, you can break  
it up however you want.  Heck, you can define it as text and use the  
exact same format you were discussing before if you like.

David