Musings (original) (raw)

, Sean Carroll and Atom

Since publicly proposing the idea a week and a half ago, I’ve noticed an increasing number of personal websites sporting

<link rel="pgpkey" type="application/pgp-keys" href="..." />

links to the owner’s PGP Public Key.

No, I don’t go around viewing the source of every weblog I visit. These links appear in the “More” menu of the Site Navigation Bar in Mozilla.

I’m really pleased to see this being rapidly adopted. But there are a couple of things that site owners can do to make it even more useful.

  1. Give the <link> a title attribute, saying whose key it is (mine says “title="Jacques Distler's PGP Public Key"”). If you have a multi-author blog, put up a separate <link> for each author’s Public Key, and identify each one with a title attribute.
  2. Make sure the key file(s) are served up as application/pgp-keys. Surfers who configure a Helper App in their browser for that MIME type can then add the Public Key to their Keychain with a single click.

I know I’m slow on the uptake, but Sean Carroll has a blog. I’ve added it to my BlogRoll. But you’ll note that, despite it having an Atom Feed, I haven’t syndicated it. mt-rssfeed doesn’t support Atom feeds yet, and Blogger, apparently, does some really funky stuff with the <summary> element of their Atom feeds.

Posted by distler at March 9, 2004 8:50 AM

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