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

[Vincent Breitmoser <[e-mail]>]

Hey list,

> Ok, so given the proponents are now happy with this merge
> request can other people please take a look and express an
> opinion on the list as to whether we should make these
> changes now.
>
> Please do so by the end of Wednesday if you can.
>
> Silence on the list I guess has to mean not making these
> changes.
>
I've read the MR [!242], and I also think it should be included. I 
recall while implementing 25519
in OpenKeychain, the handling of 25519 as part of ECDH stood out as 
particularly ugly and
unidiomatic code. This change should improve that a lot.

Independently of implementation issues, I also believe this sets a 
better precedent on how
algorithm ids should be used in the future in OpenPGP. It's important to 
improve approachability
in this regard, and better incentivize implementations to actually 
coordinate and standardize their
stuff, rather than working around the spec by overloading mechanisms in 
unintended ways.

  - V