[PYTHON-CRYPTO] Requirements

[Andrew Archibald]

On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 05:42:14PM -0500, Dan Parisien wrote:

> I also mentioned using an XML document as a keystore. Do you see this as
> having advantages/disadvantages (except for the fact that it would be XML :)?
> XML interoperability is pretty universal... Has anyone implemented a
> shelve-like interface to an XML file yet? That would be quite an
> achievement...

I think that you might want to encode keys in XML (but store the whole
mess in a big database) so that you could easily add new fields and
complicated structure to the key data.  But the existing key encoding
standards seem to address these issues pretty well, so it might be better
to aim for interoperability rather than snazziness.

Personally, I'd like to see a GnuPG keyring backend.

Andrew