Easily remembered usernames for chatmail

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@Minim

The links in QR contact codes are https-protocol, but I think DC ignores that and strips out the fingerprint locally without accessing the DC server. But presumably this could be done regardless of the domain name. Confused .

Android will not even give the URL to Delta Chat unless it pretends to be a browser and “opens” all URLs. The app developer needs to demonstrate control of the domain to be able to handle it on Android.

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@Minim

I’m on mobile Linux, so I have a keyring already populated with keys. I also have all the standards-based tools for key import and export to and from the keyring. All my other mail clients talk to my keyring; having Deltachat also talk to my keyring would actually be really convenient. It would also make key tools more reusable.

There is no standard keyring for OpenPGP keys on Linux except for de facto standard GnuPG. GnuPG itself however becomes less and less standards-based. Major Linux distributions now use FreePG patches to disable non-standard extensions (so-caled LibrePGP, a fork of OpenPGP standard made by GnuPG developers). These non-standard extensions have already resulted in real compatibility problems:

Can't decrypt some messages sent from other app

[This message cannot be decrypted. • It might already help to simply reply to this message and ask the sender to send the message again. • If you just re-installed Delta Chat then it is best if you re-setup Delta Chat now and choose Add as second device or import a backup.] I got that on the new version that was just pushed out to Android on a normal PGP (not Autocrypt) email. The older messages in the name thread have gotten through just fine and my other MUA can decrypt the new one becaus…

It is unlikely that GnuPG itself will continue to develop support for modern OpenPGP as they try to push “LibrePGP”: GnuPG - ArchWiki
Delta Chat on the other hand does not produce non-standard keys and messages, supports RFC 9580 (so Delta Chat can talk to clients using RFC 9580 keys and generating messages using new RFC 9580 features). And as such major Linux distributions (Debian and Arch) move away from GnuPG to avoid LibrePGP vendor lock-in, it is going to become even less relevant in the future.