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

Paul Wouters <paul@nohats.ca> Tue, 14 February 2023 16:01 UTC

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From: Paul Wouters <paul@nohats.ca>
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Subject: Re: [openpgp] Weird OIDs in the 4880bis draft
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On Tue, 14 Feb 2023, Stephen Farrell wrote:

> On 14/02/2023 14:39, Paul Wouters wrote:
>>
>>  This is good point to take into consideration. Is there a way forward
>>  that takes this into account? eg for v6 we can make changes, but perhaps
>>  for v3/v4 we need to keep using the old OIDs.
>>
>>  Thanks for this input Werner.
>
> So can someone explain the benefit, other than in making
> the spec tidier in a sense, of making this change?
>
> If there're implementations that use these OIDs for some
> configuration that affects applications other than PGP
> for example, using the same/official OIDs would have a
> clear benefit, but I'm not sure if that's the case or not.

As Peter said, to reduce squating on a code point that isn't ours.
Perhaps in 10 years when v3/v4 keys are too weak/vulnerable, someone
can finally remove them from the bisbis document.

Paul

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