Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Re: gpg no uid patch

On Wed, Nov 11 2020, Edd Barrett <edd@theunixzoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While working with keys.openpgp.org, I've become aware of a patch that
> allows gpg to recieve keys with no uid:
>
> https://keys.openpgp.org/about/faq#older-gnupg
>
> Perhaps that's good for privacy, but upstream have rejected the patch.

Tricky...

> Some Linux distros are applying the patch locally. Should we?

My initial feeling is that we shouldn't contribute to a fragmented
ecosystem, and that this issue would be better sorted out upstream,
even if there's disagreement so far.

Maybe some other folks have a clearer view of the problem at hand, right
now I don't.

My 0 cents,
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