Remove support for web key directory (WKD). #24
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The Web Key Directory and Web Key Service is a new proposal for automatic key location and retrieval for OpenPGP. It is the result of a public tender by the German Federal Office for Information Security, and was implemented by g10 Code GmbH and Intevation GmbH in GnuPG.
The basic idea is that the email provider provides an email service to register the openpgp keys for the email addresses it provides. The web server is located through SRV records in DNS, the URL is at a well known location derived from the email address.
I removed support for this because:
In the future, NeoPG will provide an API to extend key retrieval and trust evaluation, allowing such protocols to be included in applications without tainting the core code base.