Re: [openpgp] Weird OIDs in the 4880bis draft

[Daniel Huigens <[e-mail]>]

Hi all,

After discussing with Justus, dkg and Stephen, I've added the Curve25519
OIDs back into [!242], but marked as legacy (as Justus did in !240).
That way, they can still be referenced easily, but we still make it
clear that the new algorithm IDs are preferable. This doesn't simplify
the spec as much as before, but it's also a less radical change, and it
will still simplify greenfield implementations a lot. In a way, I think
it's a good compromise between the two MRs. And I believe that it now
represents the option we'd both be most happy with :)

Best,
Daniel

[!242]: https://gitlab.com/openpgp-wg/rfc4880bis/-/merge_requests/242


------- Original Message -------
On Friday, February 17th, 2023 at 23:26, Stephen Farrell wrote:

> Hiya,
> 
> On 17/02/2023 22:19, Daniel Huigens wrote:
> 
> > I support this change.
> 
> 
> Noted.
> 
> > I don't want to muddy the waters too much, but I've also created [!242]
> > as an alternative to this, which defines new algorithm IDs for Ed25519,
> > Ed448, X25519, and X448.
> 
> 
> Hmm. Can you and Justus not get together please and kill one
> of those MRs? Muddy waters may be great for music, but less
> so for getting the last few things finally done where the WG
> has previously failed to get things over the line.
> 
> S.