Re: [openpgp] ProtonMail moving to default X25519 keys

Excellent, and we will certainly ping people here if we receive any compatibility complaints.

-Bart

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On Tuesday, January 15, 2019 6:46 AM, Vincent Breitmoser <look@my.amazin.horse> wrote:

> 

> 

> As discussed at the summit, Autocrypt and OpenKeychain will follow suit.
> 

> See https://github.com/autocrypt/autocrypt/pull/393
> 

> -   V
>     

>     Andre Heinecke aheinecke@gnupg.org wrote:
>     

> 

> > Hi,
> > On Tuesday, January 15, 2019 10:24:54 AM CET Sunny Rajan wrote:
> > 

> > > At ProtonMail we are moving towards generating Ed25519/Curve25519 keys for
> > > our users by default on all clients. We realize this will cause
> > > interoperability issues with OpenPGP implementations that don't yet support
> > > X25519 encryption and signature verification, so we wanted to provide some
> > > advance notice in case you receive an increased number of reports from your
> > > users who are trying to communicate with ProtonMail users.
> > > Please let us know if you have any concerns!
> > 

> > thumbs up I would turn the request around a bit. Please let us, or the
> > OpenPGP Email list ( openpgp-email@enigmail.net ), know if you face interop or
> > other problems. A status update in some months time which basically says "No
> > Problems happened" would also be appreciated.
> > I guess that there are some other implementations (me included) out there that
> > think about taking the step to change the default.
> > So congratulations for the courage to be on the forefront of progress. :-)
> > Best Regards and I hope all goes well,
> > Andre
> 

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Re: [openpgp] ProtonMail moving to default X25519 keys

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