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Re: [openpgp] First remarks on the last I-D

Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> Tue, 07 June 2022 16:06 UTC

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Subject: Re: [openpgp] First remarks on the last I-D
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> We have customers that care about FIPS, and we need a FIPS-compatible
> subset of OpenPGP now, rather than wait and hope that some existing

Oh what a pitty for your customers ;-).  That is not chartered work.

And really - back when you worked for me you have not been that
energetic to support our customers back then or drive 4880bis forward.

> There are open questions around Brainpool that needs answering.  For
> example, why isn't brainpoolP384r1 included?  How do we encode points
> and scalars?

Obviously in the way it has already been done. Niibe-san had a proposal
long ago to modernize things with backward compatibility in mind.

Brainpoolp384r1 does not make real sense but I have no concert about
adding it back.  In fact Yubikeys and CardOS supports it.

> Not cherry-picking the commit that partially added Brainpool support to

Not sure I understand this.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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