[Gpg4win-devel] Gpg4win 4 upgrade and compatibility

[Bernhard Reiter]

Am Montag 30 Mai 2022 09:21:04 schrieb Werner Koch:
> > b) The new default key algorithm ECC Curve 25519 causes backwards
> >    compatibility issues. I suggest we let people know by
>
> Can you explain where this happens?  We have support for ed25519 since
> Gpg4win 3.1.2 released summer 2018.  Any older version of Gpg4win
> should not be used due to security issues.

Incompatibility With other implementations.
At least we had one report on the forum that I believes goes into that 
direction. Some of their communication partners reported that they could not 
import the pubkeys. (Analysis ongoing.)

Regards,
Bernhard

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