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

[Simon Josefsson <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Florian Weimer <fw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> * Duane at:
>
>> 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.
>
> This data is not mechanically processed (at least not in a way which is
> consistent across implementations), so you can put it into notation data
> subpackets.

Right, however, the TLS server name needs to be mechanically processed,
so it needs a different mechanism -- such as a new OpenPGP extension
that contains a single UTF-8 string intended for identification of
TLS+OpenPGP servers.

/Simon