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

Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li> Wed, 22 February 2023 10:14 UTC

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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2023 10:14:06 +0000
From: Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li>
To: Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>
Cc: Daniel Huigens <d.huigens@protonmail.com>, Justus Winter <justus@sequoia-pgp.org>, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>, Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>, "openpgp@ietf.org" <openpgp@ietf.org>
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Subject: Re: [openpgp] Weird OIDs in the 4880bis draft
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On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 07:17:47PM +0000, Stephen Farrell wrote:
> On 20/02/2023 19:01, Daniel Huigens wrote:
> > After discussing with Justus, dkg and Stephen, I've added the
> > Curve25519 OIDs back into [!242], but marked as legacy (as Justus
> > did in !240).  That way, they can still be referenced easily, but we
> > still make it clear that the new algorithm IDs are preferable. This
> > doesn't simplify the spec as much as before, but it's also a less
> > radical change, and it will still simplify greenfield
> > implementations a lot. In a way, I think it's a good compromise
> > between the two MRs. And I believe that it now represents the option
> > we'd both be most happy with :)
> 
> 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.

I've had a look at MR [!242] and agree that it is a useful piece of
clean-up and should be included.

J.

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