Web Key Directory (WKD) well known path for public key

[nottheend]

Distributing of PGP keys was painful or not effective. Web Key Directory (WKD) is solving this by providing the public key umder the actual domain.

It is described in detail here:
https://wiki.gnupg.org/WKD
(Alternatively, there is also the Web Key Service)

It would be nice if this could be added next to the other well-known location fields.

For reference: there is already an instance of this wish in App list:
https://forum.cloudron.io/post/23272

However, I don't think a separate App is required.

Thanks of this nice product, cloudron

[girish]

@nottheend interesting. Do you know if Thunderbird supports discovery of keys this way?

[nottheend]

@girish Yes, Thunderbird supports WKD.

From the Thunderbird FAQs it is explained like this:

Currently, it will search for published keys using the WKD protocol, and it will search for keys in the keys.openpgp.org keyserver.

Source:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/openpgp-thunderbird-howto-and-faq#w_how-do-i-get-the-public-keys-of-my-correspondents

Slightly off-topic, but related:
Provider posteo also offers to publish public Keys via wkd, as described in this FAQ:

https://posteo.de/en/help/easygpg-how-do-i-publish-my-public-pgp-key-in-posteos-key-directory-via-web-key-directory-wkd