Re: Plans for Post-Quantum Cryptography in GnuPG

Werner Koch via Gnupg-users <[email protected]> Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:09:31 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.user
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On Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:57, Robert J. Hansen said:

> What happens to all the GnuPG 2.4 installations out there? Or the 2.2?
> Or the 2.0? Or the 1.4? (Remember, we still regularly see support
> requests for the 1.4 series. Some people really don't want to

They all support large RSA keys.  gpg even has an option
--enable-large-ras which is used at key egeneration time:

  const unsigned maxsize = (opt.flags.large_rsa ? 8192 : 4096);

It is easy to increase to 16k - but pretty please don't do that: it will
make the WoT and general use of signatures very annoying due to the
slowness


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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refuse military service.             - A. Einstein

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