Re: Please adopt http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-groth-openpgp-attribute-extension-00.txt

[Simon Josefsson <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Duane at e164 dot org <duane@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> Simon Josefsson wrote:
>
>> Ok.  I suggest to explain (in the document) these use cases and to
>> broaden the abstract -- right now the abstract strongly implies to me
>> that you only intend the use-case to be OpenPGP in TLS:
>
> Server uses of which TLS is going to be the biggest use case is the main
> objective at present, most server certificates in the X.509 world have a
> lot more than just dnsName, such as company name, maybe a contact, the
> country, state/territory/province, town/suburb and so on and so forth.
>
> However I have a secondary internet draft that depends on this one that
> I'm currently in the process of writing and so on that I'd like to use
> OpenPGP keys for DNS encryption.
>
> Most recently draft published to the IETF site:
>
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-groth-dns-encryption-02.txt
>
> However this has now changed substantially, and the current draft is here:
>
> http://open-pgp.info/wiki/index.php?title=DNS_Encryption_Draft

Cool!  Why don't you use RFC 4398 to store OpenPGP keys in the DNS,
rather than adding a new RR type?

/Simon