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Re: [openpgp] rfc3880bis - hard expiration time

2015-04-28 11:08:22
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Christoph Anton Mitterer
<calestyo(_at_)scientia(_dot_)net> wrote:
On Tue, 2015-04-28 at 11:36 -0400, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Derek Atkins <derek(_at_)ihtfp(_dot_)com> 
wrote:

Of course.  And in many use cases that's probably sufficient.  I see use
cases where it is not sufficient so I'd like to re-gain that feature.

I think this is a use case but a distinct usecase from the usual
interpretation of fingerprint on a businesscard.

We need a range of fingerprints for different purposes and that is why
I want to have the content-type to be part of the data that is being
hashed.

Maybe it's just me but you seem to often mix up different topics...

What has the question of hard expiration times to do with the
fingerprint formats, content-types or fingerprint use cases?

Derek and Jon are both discussing opposed use cases within OpenPGP
scope. I am pointing out that we are discussing one special case of
what should be a generic mechanism.

While IETF charters are narrow, we are also supposed to be looking for
ways to work with other IETF groups and make our work as useful as
possible to other groups.

Charter fetishes really don't help. Especially when we don't have a charter yet.


Putting the MIME content type in the data to be digested is the right
approach for OpenPGP and the right approach for IETF in general.

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