Infrastructure support for GnuPG post-quantum keys

Vincent Breitmoser look at my.amazin.horse
Mon Jan 6 10:53:43 CET 2025


Hey there,

fair points here, for users who don't see value in certificate discovery 
via verifying keyservers. I would argue it's not universally agreed 
upon: We did see 60k newly verified email addresses on keys.openpgp.org 
in the last year though, adding to a total of half a million or so.

> For initail key discovering (lookup) there are better methods:
> 
> - Send the key with your initial may and start to build up trust.
>    (after all there must be some reason that you trust a mail address)
> 
> - Send the key along with the initial signed message by using the gpg
>    option --include-key-block.  This does not even require mail.
> 

For both of these options, do you think PQC-sized public keys might 
become a challenge?

Cheers

  - V



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