Re: Adding a pointer to a WebID in a GPG pubkey

Hi.

Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> writes:

> Quoting Olivier Berger (2013-08-27 17:13:50)
>> I've been discussing web of trust with Andrei and others, in the 
>> context of the Debian project, which already relies a lot on the 
>> GPG/OpenPGP web of trust.
>> 
>> So I've been wondering how to add a WebID pointer in a pubkey. 
>> However, there doesn't seem to be some easily manageable way to add 
>> RDF to a key (or at least I didn't discover it)... and I thought that 
>> a QR code as a photo ID in the pubkey could be something to test out.
> [details snipped]
>> Would this be an interesting step to promote WebID, by taking 
>> adventage of the existing GPG web of trust ?
>
> I find it a bad approach: the Photo is meant for visual identification, 
> not as storage container for whatever possible to serialize in a visual 
> container.
>

Does it help if the WebID contains a link to a photo ? ;)

OK, good point, though.

Best regards,
-- 
Olivier BERGER 
http://www-public.telecom-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/ - OpenPGP-Id: 2048R/5819D7E8
Ingenieur Recherche - Dept INF
Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, Evry (France)

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