[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#969588: sqv: Cannot use ASCII armored key as keyring?

[Justus Winter]

Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at debian.org> writes:

> On Fri 2020-10-16 12:05:48 +0200, Justus Winter wrote:
>> And in general, the expectation that you can join two files does not
>> hold.  Concatenating two photos doesn't yield a slideshow, etc.  So my
>> position on the matter is that concatenating two binary certificates
>> yielding a keyring is a happy accident of an implementational detail,
>> but shouldn't be relied upon, and certainly does not extend to other
>> representations of certificates.
>
> I understand your reasoning, but text files *do* concatenate to a longer
> textfile, and textual-representations of a keyring are text files.

I still think that this is an accident, but for the benefit of everyone
coming from GnuPG we implemented it in Sequoia, so the next version of
sqv will support this.

> and, we have (i think) a pretty solid understanding of what a
> concatenated ASCII-armored keyring would look like.  So i'm proposing
> that sop (at least) should be able to handle concatenated ASCII-armored
> certificates:
>
>    https://gitlab.com/dkg/openpgp-stateless-cli/-/issues/28
>
> Please weigh in over there!

I did.

Cheers,
Justus
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