[openpgp] Re: Persistent Symmetric Keys: new algorithms or new packets?

Andrew Gallagher <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.openpgp
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 23 Jul 2025, at 14:15, Justus Winter <[email protected]> wrote:

> So making persistent symmetric keys less similarly-shaped than other

> keys has the advantage that we can now say: this is a persistent
> symmetric key, and if you want to use it with PKESKs or Signatures to
> either create or consume them, you will need to use this other interface
> to do that.  I.e. we can avoid shoehorning the new semantics into the
> old interface.

It also makes the registries semantically cleaner - we’re not creating fake “asymmetric” algorithm codepoints that replicate existing codepoints in the symmetric registry...

A

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