[openpgp] Re: Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-gall agher-email-unobtrusive-signatures-00.txt

On Tue 2025-05-13 23:46:27 +0100, Stephen Farrell wrote:
> I think dkg asked a chair-like question on this: my answer for now is
> I reckon we could take this on if we had rough consensus in the WG
> but we'd have to (at least) co-ordinate with some other WGs before
> deciding to go ahead and do that IMO. I don't think we're quite at
> the point yet where we want to reach out and check if us taking this
> on would step on any other IETF toes.

I've been sending unobtrusively signed mails for several weeks now, in
what i think is an alignment with this spec, and i've heard no
complaints from anyone.  Probably most people can't verify my signatures
on them because most MUAs don't read those sigs, but hey most people
don't verify signatures anyway 😛 The nice thing about unobtrusive
signatures is that you can just make them unilaterally, without having
to make a decision, on any outbound e-mail message that otherwise would
have been an unsigned, cleartext mail.

I'm inclined to raise this draft on the SECDISPATCH list, and ask for a
slot to talk about it in the upcoming IETF 123.

In that slot, i can mention that there's been discussion about
potentially handling it here in the OpenPGP WG, but it would give other
people a heads-up about the work, and also present an opportunity for
other WGs to weigh in on whether they think it fits better with their
work.

        --dkg

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