ed448 support in gpg?

Jonathan Cross jcross at gmail.com
Fri Mar 13 22:12:26 CET 2020



> On Mar 11, 2020, at 3:58 PM, Andrew Gallagher <andrewg at andrewg.com> wrote:
> 
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> On 11/03/2020 12:30, Jonathan Cross via Gnupg-users wrote:
>> ed448 is likely to survive just a bit longer from what I understand.
> 
> It depends on how soon you think general-purpose quantum computers will
> be available. Elliptic-curve keys are *less* resistant to quantum
> algorithms than classically-equivalent RSA, due to their smaller size.

Ah, I was not aware of that.
Seems I should stick with RSA-4096 primary key for now.
I can add an Cv25519 subkey (and even an ed448 subkey later)

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