Re: [openpgp] To bind or not to bind

Andrew Gallagher <andrewg@andrewg.com> Sat, 23 March 2024 21:48 UTC

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On 23 Mar 2024, at 18:51, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
> 
>> If that's right, then it would put SLH-DSA-SHAKE-128f and
>> SLH-DSA-SHAKE-256s out of reach, but all the other proposals would fit.
> 
> Wait, i think i got this entirely wrong.  The public keys of SLH-DSA are
> actually quite small.  It's the signatures that are large, right?
> 
> So perhaps this isn't an issue for any of the algorithms currently
> contemplated in draft-ietf-openpgp-pqc.

We are only considering encryption subkeys in v4, so the size of SLH-DSA (or ML-DSA) keys isn’t relevant, only that of ML-KEM.

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