Subject: Re: [Hls-interest] File extension and MIME-Type for an HLS encryption key

From: Kevin Staunton-Lambert <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2021 07:47:46 +1000

Just adding an opinion - the file extension really should be irrelevant

Ideally it should be meaningful to humans and .key is most obvious semantically, but then no key should be considered acceptable too for hashing
For example IPFS naming where an IPNS name would later resolve to the .keyfoo etc

A clash with some app that exists today but more importantly some future application we don’t yet know about which decides to use .key as an extension should not have side effect on behaviour

Instead the associated MIME type must be application/… and could be application/octet+key or similar maybe

Kev 

> On 1 Jul 2021, at 2:48 am, Valentijn Siebrands <[email-masked]> wrote:
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> Valentijn Siebrands