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OpenPGP User ID Conventions
draft-dkg-openpgp-userid-conventions-00

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (individual)
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Author Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Last updated 2024-02-26 (Latest revision 2023-08-25)
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Abstract

OpenPGP User IDs are UTF-8 strings. Existing documents claim that by conventione, they contain "an RFC 2822 name-addr object", but that's not the case. This document attempts to better describe the actual conventions about User IDs in the deployed OpenPGP ecosystem.

Authors

Daniel Kahn Gillmor

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