Re: Question on Adding Support for Classic McEliece

"Robert J. Hansen via Gnupg-devel" <[email protected]> Tue, 16 Sep 2025 13:57:09 -0400

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> I am now curious.
> 
> Why was Classic McEliece added to Libgcrypt in that case?

Why does it support Whirlpool? Or SHA-3? Or Serpent? Or…

The answer can be found in the first sentence of libgcrypt's home page:

"Libgcrypt is a general purpose cryptographic library…"

Libgcrypt supports an awful lot more than just what's needed to 
implement LibrePGP. It is, as it says, a general-purpose cryptographic 
library.

https://gnupg.org/software/libgcrypt

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