Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 07:07:40PM +0200, Stefan Claas wrote:
> > Mind you, I have only asked that GnuPG should support the import and > > processing of UID-less public key blocks and did not requested that > > this should be a default behaviour in the key generation process. > > And the answer has been given: because those blocks violate the > OpenPGP standard and, as I understand Robert J. Hansen (and I > apologize to him if I'm putting the wrong words into his mouth), his > position is that there is no reason for this violation to exist at > all, there is no reason for UID-less key blocks to exist at all, so > GnuPG is quite right in following the OpenPGP standard and not > accepting them. You know what, the most interesting thing of this ML for me is that when people, do a request or suggestion the old guard is always there to defend some standard and are not accepting that a new product on the OpenPGP market, with a new feature included, add an enrichment to a given standard, which people may like to use and appreciate. Regards Stefan -- Signal (Desktop) +4915172173279 https://keybase.io/stefan_claas _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
