Fixing the "cannot impor Kyber key without password" problem?

Marian Kechlibar marian.kechlibar at circletech.net
Fri Jun 26 18:49:59 CEST 2026


Hello,

I would like to chime in on the topic of this problem:

https://dev.gnupg.org/T8029.html

This is still ongoing and I would like to advocate for some improvised, 
one-line solution like the one IKloecker has proposed. I know that Mr. 
Koch is planning to rewrite the entire mechanism, but in the meantime, a 
one-liner fix would be useful for us users.

My arguments for a one-liner fix:

* the bug is almost half a year old by now,

* the fix is fairly trivial and does not carry a risk of causing 
regressions down the line,

* password-less secret keys are really useful for automatic testing 
pipelines and with PQC slowly spreading, more people are likely to run 
into this problem.

Would it be feasible to add this fix into GnuPG 2.5.21?

Best regards

Marian Kechlibar
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