Re: Rechartering the OpenPGP WG

[David Shaw <dshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 02:44:43PM -0800, Jon Callas wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > Please respond in the next week so I can collect the responses
> > and work on an updated WG Charter.
> >
> 
> Here's some things I think should be put on the table:
> 
> * PFS
> * New symmetric ciphers, e.g. Camillia
> * Elliptic Curve / Suite B Crypto
> * AHS support
> * Exotic Signatures (Dan Nagy mentioned this)
> * Extended Fingerprints
> * OpenPGP/MIME improvements
> 
> I'm sure there are others I may have forgotten. Not being on that list  
> doesn't mean that I think it should be excluded. Also, being on that  
> list only means we will discuss or create drafts. We might decide that  
> discussion doesn't get to a draft, or draft doesn't get to RFC. If  
> something isn't in the charter, we won't discuss it. So being in the  
> charter only means a willingness to discuss.

Indeed, and in that light, I'd like to add to the list:

* V5 keys
* Changing/adding to the default / MUST-implement symmetric cipher
* Changing/adding to the default / MUST-implement hash algorithm

V5 keys might be the easiest way to get extended fingerprints or a
different default cipher, as it neatly removes the
backwards-compatibility issues.  This is true even if V5 is defined as
identical to V4 except for the version number.

David