On Sonntag, 17. Januar 2021 10:48:17 CET Erich Eckner via Gnupg-users wrote: > Hi all, > > On Thu, 14 Jan 2021, Werner Koch via Gnupg-users wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 01:47, Ángel said: > >> I understand this to mean it as "only use the direct method if the > >> required sub-domain does not exist", with the SHOULD meaning that the > >> direct method is not required (not sure why, I would have probably used > > > > Right. The subdomain is actually a workaround for SRV RR. We can't > > use the latter in browser based implementation and thus need to resort > > to this hack. > > Forgive my ignorance, but can someone explain, what "browser based > implementation" of WKD exists (or might exist) and/or why this is > desirable?
https://openpgpjs.org/ supports WKD. OpenPGP.js is used by many web applications (see link). This is desirable to allow webmailers (and other web applications that support OpenPGP) to lookup OpenPGP keys via WKD. Regards, Ingo
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