Follow-up to post: "The OpenPGP mail and news header" extenssion
Hello,
There are a lot of little attributes we may want to store with the
public key. For example:
1 - supports MIME format
2 - supports inline format
3 - supports header format
4 - preferred format
5 - prefers signed mail
6 - prefers encrypted mail
7 - public key url
etc...
There are two approaches I would like to suggest which could solve this:
- We can assign a subpacket for every such attribute
- We can create specific subpacket to hold theses attributes:
Property Subpacket (type 3)
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Subpacket specific data:
id - identifier - eg. 1
data - depends on id - eg. true
The advantage of this approach is that one relatively unimportant
attribute will not consume whole 'User Attribute Packet' subpacket.
Also, it should make deprecating/updating easier since all these
attributes are members of one subpacket type.
I really can not decide which approach is better.
'Property Subpacket' does not really describe the purpose of the
subpacket, but I could not find any better name. Any suggestions?
Regards,
David Srbecky
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