Curve25519 ECDH encryption issue

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Fri Apr 8 10:31:32 CEST 2016


On Fri,  8 Apr 2016 09:02, gniibe at fsij.org said:

> I think that expected GnuPG behavior in this case is returns an error,
> not decrypting the message.  Is it right?

That is probably the best solution.  The other would be to detect the
case, decrypt, and print a warning.  But that requires a new diagnostic
string for a very rare case.  Thus I think it is better to return an
error like GPG_ERR_BAD_MPI.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner


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