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On Tuesday 7 April 2015 at 2:14:55 PM, in <mid:87y4m43ws0....@alice.fifthhorseman.net>, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On Tue 2015-04-07 08:39:57 -0400, MFPA wrote: >> I was talking about what happens when the angle brackets are not >> there. >> If I generate a key with the UID of:- >> Test20150407 u...@example.com >> and try to encrypt an email to u...@example.com it >> fails. > The above is neither an RFC 5322 addr-spec nor an RFC > 5322 name-addr. That is, it would not be considered > acceptable in the To: line of an e-mail header: > https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322#section-3.4 > We could invent arbitrary ways to structure a User ID > that includes an e-mail address, but writing code to > extract the e-mail address from these things seems like > a lot of heuristics at best, and there are all kinds of > ways that it could fail. > We know how to structure a proper name-addr and an > addr-spec, and it's not difficult. If you want an > e-mail address to be recognizable to automated tools, > you should structure it in a recognizable way. > The above UID is simply a mistake, and i don't think > GnuPG should try to accomodate it. Fair enough. That we should try to accommodate:- u...@example.com but not:- Test20150407 u...@example.com actually makes sense to me. I structured my example UID incorrectly. - -- Best regards MFPA <mailto:2014-667rhzu3dc-lists-gro...@riseup.net> Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQF8BAEBCgBmBQJVI+PuXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXRCM0FFN0VDQTlBOEM4QjMwMjZBNUEwRjU2 QjdDNzRDRUIzMUYyNUYwAAoJEGt8dM6zHyXwSTwH/3RWs2TwjupTuuGt0yZKpAFG MrHLVxNhTLIebfSH8YhsEmYuTNoJD80UG3v7nq/aHUuXtFDaHNjXhCmqDK3zFWSG s//8lFY1rQdSGi1gIY/jFA+kB7avaumHxDb0xOZAKZLqcnauX12ZPSuohb/ryFfY Lkh72WvTKGqG0WW7tvUAlINmQ5aWXcmM03lJ/zYfzpTRLmir3d2qCKIzeImSNhOv 2T1hCbdKtINngMGOoHeNNPI9hnpPiDbUiZ2RDgzYEuQXwDlwokb39pcmEDrTxUhL S3YM/HU8unXcseKrFqDvaXYj048mY7iwg/qn+BkfHSV8yAjtlAFWKgM95VnNaRmI vgQBFgoAZgUCVSPj+V8UgAAAAAAuAChpc3N1ZXItZnByQG5vdGF0aW9ucy5vcGVu cGdwLmZpZnRoaG9yc2VtYW4ubmV0MzNBQ0VENEVFOTEzNEVFQkRFNkE4NTA2MTcx MkJDNDYxQUY3NzhFNAAKCRAXErxGGvd45O8zAQDpcM6LBGVMDhuuhyU8Pvwfaxkj /zqLFiGGhOTGxN6ZogEApRBwR6JzQiWO2XLaWiSPp39eB+hNNqPZ0G/6T1P5xw0= =IHCo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
