ed448 support in gpg?

[Werner Koch]

On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:30, Jonathan Cross said:

> How will older clients deal with a certification signature from this
> unrecognized algorithm?

They want use them and print a '?' with --check-sigs.

> Yes, I intend to do this with the subkeys (Curve25519)
> Only the primary (certification key) would use ed448 which would
> rarely be used and only offline.

If the primary key can't be validated the subkeys can't be validated
either.  For migration you can use an ed488 subkey though.  I did
similar with my old key by having a Cv25519 subkey and an rsa subkey.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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