Re: PGP aside

On 29 Dec 2011, at 13:06, Melvin Carvalho wrote:

> On 29 December 2011 13:05, Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net> wrote:
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>> On 29 Dec 2011, at 13:04, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
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>>> On 29 December 2011 13:03, Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net> wrote:
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>>>> On 29 Dec 2011, at 12:17, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
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>>>>> On 29 December 2011 10:31, Mo McRoberts <mo.mcroberts@bbc.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>> A brief aside, which may or may not be of interest to WebID folk.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I was reading through the OpenPGP spec last night, and noticed section 5.2.3.18 which describes the “Preferred Key Server” signature subpacket:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> “5.2.3.18.  Preferred Key Server
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>>>>>>   (String)
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>>>>>>   This is a URI of a key server that the key holder prefers be used for
>>>>>>   updates.  Note that keys with multiple User IDs can have a preferred
>>>>>>   key server for each User ID.  Note also that since this is a URI, the
>>>>>>   key server can actually be a copy of the key retrieved by ftp, http,
>>>>>>   finger, etc.”
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> It strikes me that as the spec explicitly provides for serving up a static resource (rather than the target being the URI of an HKP or LDAP server), it could quite easily be an endpoint which performs content negotiation and returns a variety of formats, for example PGP key data *and* linked data (which might contain, for example, a WebID profile).
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>>>> yes, very cool. I have been wondering about this for a long time.
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>>>>> Nice find.  I already do this using the wot: vocal.
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>>>> You could do this with the cert ontology too no? What is missing?
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>>> fingerprint?
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>> Can you be more specific?
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> http://xmlns.com/wot/0.1/#term_fingerprint

Ok, my mistake. That was not the full question.
Can you give a description of what you do, and why the fingerprint is important.

Another question with PGP: Is there something like a Subject Alternative Name in PGP? How does PGP identify the user? What other ways of identifying a user do they have?

Henry

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