Daniel Kahn Gillmor <d...@debian.org> writes: > On Fri 2020-10-16 12:05:48 +0200, Justus Winter wrote: >> And in general, the expectation that you can join two files does not >> hold. Concatenating two photos doesn't yield a slideshow, etc. So my >> position on the matter is that concatenating two binary certificates >> yielding a keyring is a happy accident of an implementational detail, >> but shouldn't be relied upon, and certainly does not extend to other >> representations of certificates. > > I understand your reasoning, but text files *do* concatenate to a longer > textfile, and textual-representations of a keyring are text files.
I still think that this is an accident, but for the benefit of everyone coming from GnuPG we implemented it in Sequoia, so the next version of sqv will support this. > and, we have (i think) a pretty solid understanding of what a > concatenated ASCII-armored keyring would look like. So i'm proposing > that sop (at least) should be able to handle concatenated ASCII-armored > certificates: > > https://gitlab.com/dkg/openpgp-stateless-cli/-/issues/28 > > Please weigh in over there! I did. Cheers, Justus
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