From 19b8d61f3241c026840f928239cb99a3f0e146c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Schaub Two PEP node types are invovled: A "medatata node" is used to store meta information about
OpenPGP keys used by an entity while the actual public keys are stored in "data nodes". The public key data, as specified in RFC 4880, is stored in a PEP data
node. Note that OpenPGP's ASCII Armor is not used, instead the XMPP client MUST encode the
@@ -350,11 +350,50 @@
In order to discover the OpenPGP public keys, the interested entity first queries a remote
- entities metadata note to learn about its currently annouced OpenPGP keys. Then the public
- OpenPGP key(s) can be retrieved by querying the data node for a specific fingerprint.
OpenPGP key(s) can be retrieved by querying the data node for a specific + fingerprint.
Thanks to Emmanuel Gil Peyrot, Sergei Golovan, Marc Laporte, Georg - Lukas, Adithya Abraham Philip, Brian Cully and fiaxh for their feedback.
+ Lukas, Adithya Abraham Philip, Brian Cully, fiaxh and Paul Schaub for their feedback.The first draft of this specification was worked out and written on the wall of the 'Kymera' room in one of Google's buildings by the