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Updated Keyserver less OpenPGP (markdown)

Dominik Schürmann 2016-07-10 13:26:45 +02:00
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Opportunistic Key Exchange
This does not discuss trust, only key discovery!
Warning: This does not discuss trust, only key discovery!
# Opportunistic Key Exchange
* A: Send normal email with header ``OpenPGP: preference=signencrypt``
* B: Receiver's normal response email is signed and contains the key as attachment
* A: Email is received, key is automatically imported and signature verified. Check that key corresponds to sig?
* A: 3rd email is encrypted+signed in this exchange
# Full Text
We propose to enable the OpenPGP header by default for all outgoing emails to announce to recipients that you are capable of receiving OpenPGP protected emails.
The default header should look like this: ``OpenPGP: preference=signencrypt``
Always announcing that a sender is capable of receiving OpenPGP protected emails signals to the receiver to -- for the next email to this sender -- attach his/her public key and sign it.
In K-9 Mail on Android we plan to import these attached keys automatically to opportunistically protect emails with OpenPGP.
We propose this additional roundtrip with the header instead of always signing and attaching keys directly, because users which don't use OpenPGP are annoyed by weird attachments like signature.asc or 0x12345678.asc.
We are not proposing to include a Key ID or URL in the header by default for all emails as this would leak additional data. Including a Key ID would leak information about the key if it's available on keyservers, including the URL does not allow to import something automatically as this introduced a synchronous connection to a webserver, which could be exploited for tracking users for example.
[The "OpenPGP" mail and news header field](https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-josefsson-openpgp-mailnews-header-07)
Tracking in email client bug trackers: