[openpgp] Re: OpenPGP WG next steps discussion

Andrew Gallagher <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.openpgp
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 17 Sep 2025, at 10:41, Simon Josefsson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> The extension would convey to a recipient that the signature was
> committed to some log, and the recipient can also verify
> cryptographically this claim.  The extension would carry some
> information that can be chained back to the transparency log.

A trivial implementation of this would be a Merkle tree construction where each signature in the chain contained a notation subpacket that referenced the previous signature. The log itself could then be any database that is indexable by the reference IDs.

A

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