Re: User profile: PGP Key ID

On 20.02.2013 21:12, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> On 20.02.2013 21:03, Donald Stufft wrote:
>> On Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Daniel Holth wrote:
>>> You know how to do S/MIME; how much harder would it be to use X.509 signatures as are supported with openssl and bundled GUI cert managers on all OSs?
>>
>> Signing tech doesn't really matter. I suspect societal and possibly legal requirements
>> will make that choice over technical reasons. 
> 
> Relying only on OpenSSL would have the great advantage of being able
> to all the verification/signing/key generation in Python.
> 
> But it's missing an infrastructure to revoke keys, unless you also
> implement SSL key revocation mechanisms and have users get official
> paid/free SSL client certificates from certificate vendors that
> provide CRLs or support OTRS.

Sorry, s/OTRS/OCSP/ .. though using a ticket system for revocations
doesn't sound all that strange either :-)

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