[openpgp] Re: WGLC for draft-ietf-openpgp-pqc [was: Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-openpgp-pqc-08.txt]

Andrew Gallagher <andrewg@andrewg.com> Tue, 06 May 2025 09:06 UTC

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Subject: [openpgp] Re: WGLC for draft-ietf-openpgp-pqc [was: Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-openpgp-pqc-08.txt]
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On 6 May 2025, at 09:55, Daniel Huigens <d.huigens=40protonmail.com@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
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> All of that being said, there is kind of a third option which is: we leave draft-openpgp-pqc as-is, but we very quickly write up another draft for encryption subkey selection which makes the above statement in draft-openpgp-pqc true. I think that's a risky course of action if we don't manage to achieve consensus in the end, though, as we'll be left with an RFC for PQC in OpenPGP with a statement that's not true and a recommendation that doesn't work.

A fourth option is the same as the third, but we add a reference from the PQC draft to the subkey selection draft, and then they move forward in the IETF process as a group. This will stall the final publication of the PQC RFC until the encryption draft is ready, but it might serve to concentrate minds.

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