[OTR-users] PGP integration?

Peter Saint-Andre stpeter at stpeter.im
Fri Sep 28 14:29:32 EDT 2012


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On 9/28/12 12:02 PM, Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Sep 2012, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> 
>>>> One big problem is that there's no way to bind the PGP key
>>>> for "bob at example.com" to the AIM ID "angrybob".
>>> 
>>> That's why I want to submit an RFC for an OTRFP RRtype record
>>> for use with DNSSEC/DANE, pretty much analogue to:
>>> 
>>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hoffman-dane-smime
>>> 
>>> It won't help you much against google changing dns on 
>>> your at gmail.com, but at least yourname at yourdomain.com should be 
>>> pretty reliable.
>> 
>> I like it.
> 
> I know. Though we would also have to start/finish writing up the
> OTR specification as an IETF document. That's a much bigger chore
> :(

As you know, I think an RFC would be most helpful for the sake of
interoperability and I volunteered to assist with that. As I recall,
there were some concerns about the IETF's IPR policy, so I stopped all
work on the Internet-Draft pending clarity on that issue.

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
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