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Re: Suggestion for the signing subkey problem

2003-06-29 10:14:55


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Hello Ian,

On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 00:30:08 +0100, you wrote:


I am amazed that this thread is still running several weeks after you
started it, with virtually every response refuting your arguments...

And what amazes me, is that you have yet to grasp what we are
talking about!  Please re-read the thread, some issues have
been addressed.  I sincerely hope that you re-read each and
every message in that thread, because, you are taylor made
for the kind of attacks which can be inflicted to your
OpenPGP keys.
One person's eccentricity is another person's operational requirement. 

OpenPGP should be flexible enough to accomodate both.

Exactly, it's an operational requirement, therefore, please 
by all means exclude such requirements from a standard,

You seem unable to understand the difference between enabling
functionality through a standard and mandating it. RFC 2440 has allowed
subkeys for several years now. You need to make the case to remove this
functionality better than you have done so far.

No problems, I mean what can I say???
If on the other hand you feel that these operational 
requirement are the best thing since sliced bread, than by 
all means, spawn another RFC to standardize them.

RFC 2440 was published five years ago. I look forward to your draft
removing multiple subkey capability from it. 
I am no paper pusher, and do not have the funding or time/ability
to publish RFC's

And no offence,

Best Regards

Imad R. Faiad

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