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draft-koch-openpgp-webkey-service-20
Network Working Group W. Koch
Internet-Draft g10 Code GmbH
Intended status: Informational 2 June 2025
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OpenPGP Web Key Directory
draft-koch-openpgp-webkey-service-20
Abstract
This specification describes a service to locate OpenPGP keys by mail
address using a Web service and the HTTPS protocol. It also provides
a method for secure communication between the key owner and the mail
provider to publish and revoke the public key.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Notational Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
3. Web Key Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
3.1. Key Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
4. Web Key Directory Update Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.1. The Submission Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.2. The Submission Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.3. The Confirmation Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.4. The Confirmation Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.5. Policy Flags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
6. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
6.1. Well-Known URI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
7. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
8. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Appendix A. Sample Protocol Run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
A.1. Sample Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
A.2. Sample Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Appendix B. Changes Since -14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
1. Introduction
This memo describes a method to associate OpenPGP keys with a mail
address and how to look them up using a web service with a well-known
URI. In addition a mail based protocol is given to allow a client to
setup such an association and to maintain it.
2. Notational Conventions
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].
3. Web Key Directory
A major use case for OpenPGP is the encryption of mail. A common
difficulty of sending encrypted mails to a new communication partner
is to find the appropriate public key of the recipient. Unless an
off-channel key exchange has been done, there are no easy ways to
discover the required key. The common practice is to search the
network of public key servers for a key matching the recipient's mail
address. This practise bears the problem that the keyservers are not
able to give a positive confirmation that a key actually belongs to
the mail addresses given in the key. Further, there are often
several keys matching a mail address and thus one needs to pick a key
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on good luck. This is clearly not a secure way to setup an end-to-
end encryption. Even if the need for a trusted key for an initial
mail message is relinquished, a non-authenticated key may be a wrong
one and the actual recipient would receive a mail which she can't
decrypt, due to the use of a wrong key.
Methods to overcome this problem are
* sending an initial unencrypted message with the public key
attached,
* using the OpenPGP DANE protocol to lookup the recipients key via
the DNS.
The first method has the obvious problems of not even trying to
encrypt the initial mail, an extra mail round-trip, and problems with
unattended key discovery.
The latter method works fine but requires that mail providers need to
set up a separate DNS resolver to provide the key. The
administration of a DNS zone is often not in the hands of small mail
installations. Thus an update of the DNS resource records needs to
be delegated to the ISP running the DNS service. Further, DNS
lookups are not encrypted and missing all confidentially. Even if
the participating MUAs are using STARTTLS to encrypt the mail
exchange, a DNS lookup for the key unnecessarily identifies the
local-part of the recipients mail address to any passive
eavesdroppers.
This memo specified a new method for key discovery using an encrypted
https connection.
3.1. Key Discovery
Although URIs are able to encode all kind of characters,
straightforward implementations of a key directory may want to store
the local-part of a mail address directly in the file system. This
forbids the use of certain characters in the local-part. To allow
for such an implementation method the URI uses an encoded form of the
local-part which can be directly mapped to a file name.
OpenPGP defines its User IDs, and thus the mail address, as UTF-8
strings. To help with the common pattern of using capitalized names
(e.g. "Joe.Doe@example.org") for mail addresses, and under the
premise that almost all MTAs treat the local-part case-insensitive
and that the domain-part is required to be compared case-insensitive
anyway, all upper-case ASCII characters in a User ID are mapped to
lowercase. Non-ASCII characters are not changed.
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The so mapped local-part is hashed using the SHA-1 algorithm. The
resulting 160 bit digest is encoded using the Z-Base-32 method as
described in [RFC6189], section 5.1.6. The resulting string has a
fixed length of 32 octets.
There are two variants on how to form the request URI: The advanced
and the direct method. Implementations MUST first try the advanced
method. Only if an address for the required sub-domain does not
exist, they SHOULD fall back to the direct method. A non-responding
server does not mean that the fall back should be carried out.
The advanced method requires that a sub-domain with the fixed name
openpgpkey is created and queried. The URI is constructed by
concatenating these items:
* The scheme https://,
* the string openpgpkey,
* the domain-part,
* the string /.well-known/openpgpkey/,
* the domain-part in lowercase,
* the string /hu/,
* the above constructed 32 octet string,
* the unchanged local-part as a parameter with name l using proper
percent escaping.
An example for such an advanced method URI to lookup the key for
Joe.Doe@Example.ORG is:
https://openpgpkey.example.org/.well-known/openpgpkey/
example.org/hu/iy9q119eutrkn8s1mk4r39qejnbu3n5q?l=Joe.Doe
(line has been wrapped for rendering purposes)
The direct method requires no additional DNS entries and constructs
the URI by concatenating these items:
* The scheme https://,
* the domain-part,
* the string /.well-known/openpgpkey/hu/,
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* the above constructed 32 octet string,
* the unchanged local-part as a parameter with name l using proper
percent escaping.
Example for a direct method URI:
https://example.org/.well-known/openpgpkey/
hu/iy9q119eutrkn8s1mk4r39qejnbu3n5q?l=Joe.Doe
(line has been wrapped for rendering purposes)
Sites which do not use the advanced method but employ wildcard DNS
for their sub-domains MUST make sure that the openpgpkey sub-domain
is not subject to the wildcarding. This can be done by inserting an
empty TXT RR for this sub-domain.
The HTTP GET method MUST return the binary representation of the
OpenPGP key for the given mail address. The key needs to carry a
User ID packet ([RFC4880]) with that mail address. Note that the key
may be revoked or expired - it is up to the client to handle such
conditions. To ease distribution of revoked keys, a server may
return revoked keys in addition to a new key. The keys are returned
by a single request as concatenated key blocks.
The server MUST accept the HTTP HEAD method to allow a client to
check for the existence of a key.
The server SHOULD use "application/octet-stream" as the Content-Type
for the data but clients SHOULD also accept any other Content-Type.
The server SHOULD NOT return an ASCII armored version of the key.
The server MUST serve a Policy Flags file as specified below. That
file is even required if the Web Key Directory Update Protocol is not
supported.
The benefit of the advanced method is its greater flexibility in
setting up the Web Key Directory in environments where more than one
mail domain is hosted. DNS SRV resource records, as used in earlier
specifications of this protocol, posed a problem for implementations
which have only limited access to DNS resolvers. Note that the
direct method allows to provide a Web Key Directory without any DNS
changes.
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4. Web Key Directory Update Protocol
To put keys into the key directory a protocol to automate the task is
desirable. The protocol defined here is entirely based on mail and
the assumption that a mail provider can securely deliver mail to the
INBOX of a user (e.g. an IMAP folder). Note that the same protocol
may also be used for submitting keys for use with OpenPGP DANE.
In the following sections the term "target key" denotes the to be
published key, the term "submission key" the key associated with the
submission-address of the mail provider. The string "WELLKNOWN"
denotes the first part of an URI specific for a domain. In the
examples the domain "example.org" is assumed, thus:
WELLKNOWN := https://openpgpkey.example.org/.well-known/
openpgpkey/example.org
(line has been wrapped for rendering purposes)
or if the sub-domain openpgpkey does not exist (direct method):
WELLKNOWN := https://example.org/.well-known/openpgpkey
We assume that the user already created a key for her mail account
alice@example.org. To install the key at her provider's Web Key
Directory, she performs the following steps:
1. She retrieves a file which contains one line with the mail
address used to submit the key to the mail provider. See below
for the syntax of that file. For a mail address at the domain
"example.org" the URI of the file is
WELLKNOWN/submission-address
2. She sends her key using SMTP (or any other transport mechanism)
to the provider using the submission address and key format as
specified by PGP/MIME.
3. The provider checks that the received key has a User ID which
matches an account name of the provider.
4. The provider sends an encrypted message containing a nonce and
the fingerprint of the key to the mail account of the user. Note
that a similar scheme is used by the well known caff(1) tool to
help with key signing parties.
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5. A legitimate user will be able to decrypt the message because she
created the key and is in charge of the private key. This step
verifies that the submitted key has actually been created by the
owner of the account.
6. The user sends the decrypted nonce back to the submission address
as a confirmation that the private key is owned by her and that
the provider may now publish the key. The confirmation mail to
the provider MUST be encrypted using the provider's public key as
retrieved using the key lookup protocol described above.
7. The provider receives the nonce, matches it with its database of
pending confirmations and then publishes the key. Finally the
provider sends a mail back to the user to notify her of the
publication of her key.
The message data structures used for the above protocol are specified
in detail below.
4.1. The Submission Address
The address of the submission file is
WELLKNOWN/submission-address
The file consists of exactly one line, terminated by a LF, or the
sequence of CR and LF, with the full mail address to be used for
submission of a key to the mail provider. For example the content of
the file may be
key-submission-example.org@directory.example.org
4.2. The Submission Mail
The mail used to submit a key to the mail provider MUST comply to the
PGP/MIME specification ([RFC3156], section 7), which states that the
Content-Type must be "application/pgp-keys", there are no required or
optional parameters, and the body part contains the ASCII-armored
transferable Public Key Packets as defined in [RFC4880], section
11.1.
The mail provider MUST publish a key capable of signing and
encryption for the submission-address in the Web Key Directory or via
DANE. The key to be published MUST be submitted using a PGP/MIME
encrypted message ([RFC3156], section 4). The message MUST NOT be
signed (because the authenticity of the signing key has not yet been
confirmed). After decryption of the message at the mail provider a
single "application/pgp-keys" part, as specified above, is expected.
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4.3. The Confirmation Request
The mail provider sends a confirmation mail in response to a received
key publication request. The message MUST be sent from the
submission-address of the mail provider to the mail address extracted
from the target key. The message needs to be a PGP/MIME signed
message using the submission key of the provider for the signature.
The signed message MUST have two parts:
The first part MUST have "text" as its Content-Type and can be used
to explain the purpose of the mail. For example it may point to this
specification and explain on how to manually perform the protocol.
By evaluating the Content-Language header of the request the provider
may send back a localized version.
The second part MUST have a Content-Type of "application/
vnd.gnupg.wkd" and carry an OpenPGP encrypted message in ASCII Armor
format. If the protocol version is unknown or less than 5 the
Content-Type "application/vnd.gnupg.wks" MUST be used for backward
compatibility. The message MUST be encrypted to the target key and
MUST NOT be signed. After decryption a text file in the Web Key data
format must be yielded.
That data format consists of name-value pairs with one name-value
pair per LF or CR+LF terminated line. Empty lines are allowed and
will be ignored by the receiver. A colon is used to terminate a
name.
In a confirmation request the following names MUST be send in the
specified order:
* "type": The value must be "confirmation-request".
* "sender": This is the mailbox the user is expected to sent the
confirmation response to. The value must match the mailbox part
of the "From:" address of this request. Exactly one address MUST
be given.
* "address": The value is the addr-spec part of the target key's
mail address. The value SHOULD match the addr-spec part of the
recipient's address. The value MUST be UTF-8 encoded as required
for an OpenPGP User ID.
* "fingerprint": The value is the fingerprint of the target key.
The fingerprint is given in uppercase hex encoding without any
interleaving spaces.
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* "nonce": The value is a string with a minimum length of 16 octets
and a maximum length of 64 octets. The string must entirely be
made up of random ASCII letters or digits. This nonce will be
sent back to the mail provider as proof that the recipient is the
legitimate owner of the target-key.
The receiver of that message is expected to verify the outer
signature and disregard the entire message if it can't be verified or
has not been signed by the key associated with the submission
address.
After the message has been verified the receiver decrypts the second
part of the signed message, checks that the "fingerprint" matches the
target key, checks that the "address" matches a User ID of the target
key, and checks the other constrains of the request format. If any
constraint is not asserted, or the fingerprint or User ID do not
match the target key, or there is no pending publication requests
(i.e. a mail recently sent to the submission address), the user MAY
be notified about this fake confirmation attempt.
In other cases the confirmation request is legitimate and the MUA
shall silently send a response as described in the next section.
The rationale for the outer signature used with this request is to
allow early detection of spam mails. This can be done prior to the
decryption step and avoids asking the user to enter a passphrase to
perform the decryption for a non-legitimate message. The use of a
simple encrypted attachment, instead of using PGP/MIME encryption, is
to convey the Content-Type of that attachment in the clear and also
to prevent automatic decryption of that attachment by PGP/MIME aware
clients. The MUA may in fact detect this confirmation request and
present a customized dialog for confirming that request.
4.4. The Confirmation Response
A response to a confirmation request MUST only be send in the
positive case; there is no negative confirmation response. A mail
service provider is expected to cancel a pending key submission after
a suitable time without a confirmation. The mail service provider
SHOULD NOT retry the sending of a confirmation request after the
first request has been send successfully.
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The user MUST send the confirmation response from her target mail
address to the "from" address of the confirmation request. The
message MUST be signed and encrypted using the PGP/MIME Combined
format ([RFC3156], section 6.2). The signing key is the target key
and the encryption key is the key associated with the provider's
submission address. The server MAY verify the signature and silently
discard the message if it is not found to be valid;
The Content-Type used for the plaintext message MUST match the
Content-Type of the request. The format is the same as described
above for the Confirmation Request. The body must contain four name-
value pairs in this order:
* "type": The value must be "confirmation-response".
* "sender": The value is the value of the "sender" parameter from
the confirmation request.
* "address": The value is the value of the "address" parameter from
the confirmation request.
* "nonce": The value is the value of the "nonce" parameter from the
confirmation request.
The server MUST check the "nonce" against the one sent in the request
and publish the key only if the nonce matches and has not been re-
used.
4.5. Policy Flags
For key generation and submission it is useful to tell the client
about certain properties of the mail provider in advance. This can
be done with a file at the URL
WELLKNOWN/policy
A site supporting the Web Key Directory MUST serve this file; it is
sufficient if that file has a zero length. Clients may use this file
to check for Web Key Directory support.
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The file contains keywords and optionally values, one per line with
each line terminated by a LF or the sequence of CR and LF. Empty
lines and lines starting with a '#' character are considered comment
lines. A keyword is made up of lowercase letters, digits, hyphens,
or dots. An underscore is allowed as a name space delimiters; see
below. The first character must be a letter. Keywords which are
defined to require a value are directly followed by a colon and then
after optional white space the value. Clients MUST use case-
insensitive matching for the keyword.
Currently defined keywords are:
* "mailbox-only": The mail server provider does only accept keys
with only a mailbox in the User ID. In particular User IDs with a
real name in addition to the mailbox will be rejected as invalid.
* "dane-only": The mail server provider does not run a Web Key
Directory but only an OpenPGP DANE service. The Web Key Directory
Update protocol is used to update the keys for the DANE service.
The use of this keyword is deprecated.
* "auth-submit": The submission of the mail to the server is done
using an authenticated connection. Thus the submitted key will be
published immediately without any confirmation request.
* "protocol-version": This keyword can be used to explicitly claim
the support of a specific version of the Web Key Directory update
protocol. This is in general not needed but implementations may
have workarounds for providers which only support an old protocol
version. If these providers update to a newer version they should
add this keyword so that the implementation can disable the
workaround. The value is an integer corresponding to the
respective draft revision number.
* "submission-address": An alternative way to specify the submission
address. The value is the addr-spec part of the address to send
requests to this server. If this keyword is used in addition to
the submission-address file, both MUST have the same value.
More keywords will be defined in updates to this I-D. There is no
registry except for this document. For experimental use of new
features or for provider specific settings, keywords MUST be prefixed
with a domain name and an underscore.
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5. Security Considerations
The use of SHA-1 for the mapping of the local-part to a fixed string
is not a security feature but merely used to map the local-part to a
fixed-sized string made from a well defined set of characters. It is
not intended to conceal information about a mail address.
The domain name part of the mail address is not part of the hash to
avoid problems with internationalized domain names. Instead a
separate URL is required for each domain name.
To make it a bit harder to test for published keys, the server
responsible to serve the WELLKNOWN directory SHOULD NOT create an
index file for that directory or any sub-directory.
The mail provider MUST make sure to publish a key in a way that only
the mail address belonging to the requested user is part of the User
ID packets included in the returned key. Other User ID packets and
their associated binding signatures MUST be removed before
publication. Confirmation requests MUST only be send for such to be
published User ID. It is further recommended that a client filters a
received key or a key send for a publication requests so that only
the specific User ID with the mail address of the provider is
imported or send.
A client MUST NOT accept a HTTP authentication challenge (HTTP code
401) because the information in the Web Key Directory is public and
needs no authentication. Allowing an authentication challenge has
the problem to easily confuse a user with a password prompt and
tricking him into falsely entering the passphrase used to protect his
private key or to login to his mail provider.
The use of DNS SRV records as specified in former revisions of this
document reduces the certainty that a mail address belongs to a
domain. For example an attacker may change the target to a host in a
sub-domain under their control and thus gain full control over all
keys.
6. IANA Considerations
6.1. Well-Known URI
IANA is requested to assign a well-known URI in the "Well-Known URIs"
registry as defined by [RFC8615]:
URI suffix: openpgpkey
Change controller: IETF
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Specification document: This
7. Acknowledgments
The author would like to acknowledge the help of the individuals who
kindly voiced their opinions on the GnuPG mailing lists, in
particular, the help of Bernhard Reiter and Guilhem Moulin.
8. Normative References
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2119>.
[RFC3156] Elkins, M., Del Torto, D., Levien, R., and T. Roessler,
"MIME Security with OpenPGP", RFC 3156,
DOI 10.17487/RFC3156, August 2001,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3156>.
[RFC4880] Callas, J., Donnerhacke, L., Finney, H., Shaw, D., and R.
Thayer, "OpenPGP Message Format", RFC 4880,
DOI 10.17487/RFC4880, November 2007,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4880>.
[RFC6189] Zimmermann, P., Johnston, A., Ed., and J. Callas, "ZRTP:
Media Path Key Agreement for Unicast Secure RTP",
RFC 6189, DOI 10.17487/RFC6189, April 2011,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6189>.
[RFC8615] Nottingham, M., "Well-Known Uniform Resource Identifiers
(URIs)", RFC 8615, DOI 10.17487/RFC8615, May 2019,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8615>.
Appendix A. Sample Protocol Run
The following non-normative example can be used by implementors as
guidance.
Note that GnuPG version 2.1.12 supports the key discovery described
in version -00 of this document (auto-key-locate method "wkd").
Version 2.1.16 can run the protocol described in this document but is
also able to run the protocol version specified by -01. For backward
compatibility this example uses the Content-Type as required for
versions of this protocol prior to -04; if the client knows that the
server support -04 "vnd.gnupg.wkd" should be used.
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A.1. Sample Keys
This is the provider's submission key:
-----BEGIN PGP PRIVATE KEY BLOCK-----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=Hnwd
-----END PGP PRIVATE KEY BLOCK-----
This is the target key to be published:
-----BEGIN PGP PRIVATE KEY BLOCK-----
lFgEV2o9XRYJKwYBBAHaRw8BAQdAZ8zkuQDL9x7rcvvoo6s3iEF1j88Dknd9nZhL
nTEoBRkAAP94nCZMM4WY2IORXfM6phLGSz3RsHvs/vA1Opaus4+R3BKJtBtwYXRy
aWNlLmx1bXVtYmFAZXhhbXBsZS5uZXSIeQQTFggAIQUCV2o9XQIbAwULCQgHAgYV
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TiFZBA==
=GHi7
-----END PGP PRIVATE KEY BLOCK-----
A.2. Sample Messages
The first message triggers the publication requests.
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From: patrice.lumumba@example.net
To: key-submission@example.net
Subject: Key publishing request
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/encrypted;
protocol="application/pgp-encrypted";
boundary="=-=01-e8k41e11ob31eefa36wo=-="
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2016 10:15:51 +0000
--=-=01-e8k41e11ob31eefa36wo=-=
Content-Type: application/pgp-encrypted
Version: 1
--=-=01-e8k41e11ob31eefa36wo=-=
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
hF4DUgLY5tvmW2sSAQdAR1AcqvFpQe/fHRZbf0xcnl9Tb+AtwaX2yZnZXGELGHsw
1/e3E0JptwM5tpRAVe71ooF8Zq4jl76ZgQKfj/SyjpLJxyoEDy2N5wTQaqW4JtML
0ukB1vh7dIRDxBJX/LQIJC0wz8o1Q3vjcLJKFFvDb7YrerABpPIzwOAupcgIbQHj
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jLJAvLK/u/ga5DAzVai+vh6b6Bq+YVPaD9GWMhWj4CgR90p9LULi6S/Hzwhv9Wzf
8fJoJOaDjyvRDgr09jYLWamxkS9NWxqwy6MXJvxwbNdd5XtqiW4Y4o0Ll1hDJhxR
ljn/XvotXKwhKN+4QGhIXDVt4Dl4XxS5ptWfVTau8W8DYqDsU2obEcfsirZv53M1
Q9FCD8CD9+dkBt8VAJekCWVhEltcRHxlrznbk2jxm93xSD2o6gZ5X0VSaSUXyEhm
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R4nvvMRcj5UgTsKpZ79NiDQukbjG5ScNT5TCUiiZsBXBqBx3fD61EH6cAuh4P3Kr
iM7PY4fwAHo890Dx+Qlt
=WIhx
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----
--=-=01-e8k41e11ob31eefa36wo=-=--
The server decrypts this message to
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Content-Type: application/pgp-keys
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
mDMEV2o9XRYJKwYBBAHaRw8BAQdAZ8zkuQDL9x7rcvvoo6s3iEF1j88Dknd9nZhL
nTEoBRm0G3BhdHJpY2UubHVtdW1iYUBleGFtcGxlLm5ldIh5BBMWCAAhBQJXaj1d
AhsDBQsJCAcCBhUICQoLAgQWAgMBAh4BAheAAAoJEBOVY2gqAg0KmQ0BAMUNzAlT
OzG7tolSI92lhePi5VqutdqTEQTyYYWi1aEsAP0YfiuosNggTc0oRTSz46S3i0Qj
AlpXwfU00888yIreDbg4BFdqPY0SCisGAQQBl1UBBQEBB0AWeeZlz31O4qTmIKr3
CZhlRUXZFxc3YKyoCXyIZBBRawMBCAeIYQQYFggACQUCV2o9jQIbDAAKCRATlWNo
KgINCsuFAP9BplWl813pi779V8OMsRGs/ynyihnOESft/H8qlM8PDQEAqIUPpIty
OX/OBFy2RIlIi7J1bTp9RzcbzQ/4Fk4hWQQ=
=qRfF
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
and returns this confirmation request
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From: key-submission@example.net
To: patrice.lumumba@example.net
Subject: Confirm your key publication
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/encrypted;
protocol="application/pgp-encrypted";
boundary="=-=01-wrzqued738dfx4x97u7y=-="
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2016 10:16:57 +0000
--=-=01-wrzqued738dfx4x97u7y=-=
Content-Type: application/pgp-encrypted
Version: 1
--=-=01-wrzqued738dfx4x97u7y=-=
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
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FwYgM2fp9cvTMdJ/xjkvmAcIEOT4AY/hn1yFQ4z0KG0gCkSac+8mkDylnPdxlXYw
0sBSAXlbqpVA7eUpFuU2Zs10zbIXxlwe6osR5wUIJut/RCOsYQmfvxC55x8mUX5/
zgTnNzlMzye5ws4pTgAeQm2x0Yv018L8IZgY5KxwJLBzlss0wLZ45ZcS80hR11Fx
NCow1fKF8lMnOJxagTEOih807nctz8vT5bR1gx0d7N3LM+th8nAg9/6Ghf1XTpLo
MzwGW0FtOG7Dg1Uxbw2bjaOuRBeh6IIpmNAw1pmIfnNu7PpoRydU5w1K/R8MT06z
MKdJ7IW5mVGes9EGnG3e4mjuILvNaZhfYy+a73IhDSaPm3oqdl1Qx7tbNg6lGjn6
KStCYAcPGPp3m7aWkfsPGThOVRhEXqaFFywfwSVEj1pdIRjDFA==
=Cdjh
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----
--=-=01-wrzqued738dfx4x97u7y=-=--
The client decrypts this PGP/MIME message as
Content-Type: application/vnd.gnupg.wks
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
type: confirmation-request
sender: key-submission@example.net
address: patrice.lumumba@example.net
fingerprint: B21DEAB4F875FB3DA42F1D1D139563682A020D0A
nonce: f5pscz57zj6fk11wekk8gx4cmrb659a7
creates this response
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Content-Type: application/vnd.gnupg.wks
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
type: confirmation-response
sender: key-submission@example.net
address: patrice.lumumba@example.net
nonce: f5pscz57zj6fk11wekk8gx4cmrb659a7
and sends it PGP/MIME Combined signed and encrypted to the server
From: patrice.lumumba@example.net
To: key-submission@example.net
Subject: Key publication confirmation
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/encrypted;
protocol="application/pgp-encrypted";
boundary="=-=01-iacqg4og4pqz11a5cg1o=-="
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2016 10:18:52 +0000
--=-=01-iacqg4og4pqz11a5cg1o=-=
Content-Type: application/pgp-encrypted
Version: 1
--=-=01-iacqg4og4pqz11a5cg1o=-=
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
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0sC5AfEwq24oKF/6Q8vb1L/KUzFeitnWBnxS1i9XONlG9FTpSGfBir9szqz3QtMu
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4Bxza2HvWRkkKc48Orf5AjK45Wm/G72m72d/KiYfzBm0W4T5QkVqRnX+vpoQc+bo
thEE715ma9SnZMcY3fRcPnhjlDxDneB5DD7WNdiz+wZL0OiHW/kT8Eo4/OZnb72M
t44hd8xB8wbfhz5/zmgmlG4IGGA4MomZyg7G/fo24xaIqkjgnJ1GryWaztNQM6Xx
34kDLTF1fkjqmMZOtTEFKwC5dzrp1qb7B4ZWsFXC+bSLC5teaRajmOr4T5tXCFV7
TL0gNBsg/bRBU6wmFDaOaJjleoTsh/7YNJaMsoiMx7NrHe+uVqaEbE4HsWU=
=tlCO
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----
--=-=01-iacqg4og4pqz11a5cg1o=-=--
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Appendix B. Changes Since -14
* Deprectated dane-only keyword.
Author's Address
Werner Koch
g10 Code GmbH
Germany
Email: wk@gnupg.org
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