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

[Paul Wouters <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, 14 Feb 2023, Werner Koch wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Feb 2023 19:05, Paul Wouters said:
>
>> I think we should use the new OIDs and mention the old OIDs in the draft
>> for backwards compatibility.
>
> Using new OIDs will eventually make keys and signatures created since 8
> years invalid.  Further deployed software won't be able to handle any
> newly created signature or key.

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.

>  This is crazy, folks.
>
> Sometimes I can't but fear the goal of the WG is to harm the repudiation
> of OpenPGP.

This part however, is not helpful to make the internet work better.

Paul