[OTR-users] PGP integration?

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Sun Jun 23 18:16:05 EDT 2013


On 06/22/2013 08:28 AM, Ximin Luo wrote:
> On 28/09/12 02:43, Ian Goldberg wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 02:19:22AM +0100, Ximin Luo wrote:
>>> Hi, are there any plans to integrate OTR keys with PGP? (c.f. how
>>> monkeysphere integrates SSH keys with PGP).

> (re-visiting this issue)
> 
> 1. Unfortunately if I sign my OTR key (a file) using my PGP key in the usual
> way, this creates a non-revocable signature using the "S" ability of the key.
> 
> What we really want is to create revocable certification of the OTR key using
> the "C" ability of the key, which is the same thing that's done when signing
> other people's keys (as opposed to files).

I think this question is at least as much of an OpenPGP issue as it is
an OTR issue.

you might be interested in the recent discussion on the IETF's OpenPGP
mailing list about this:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.ietf.openpgp/7333

hth,

	--dkg

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