[Gpg4win-users-en] key type not supported

[Bernhard Kleine]

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I am looking forward to that. Thanks for gpg4win

Bernhard

Am 30.10.2015 um 17:50 schrieb Andre Heinecke:
> Hi,
>
> On Friday 30 October 2015 17:19:30 Bernhard Kleine wrote:
>> I got the following message in the gpg-user maillist. Enigmail tells me
>> that the key type is not supported.
>>
>> I have thunderbird 38.3.0, enigmail 1.8.2 and gpg4win from today. I
>> wonder what is so new that it is not yet supported in Gpg4win
>
> The message was signed twice. Once with an RSA subkey and once with an
ed25519
> subkey:
> Verifying on the command line with GnuPG 2.1 gives me:
>
> Signature made Fri 30 Oct 2015 12:44:06 PM CET using RSA key ID B31F25F0
> ...
> Signature made Fri 30 Oct 2015 12:44:13 PM CET using EDDSA key ID 1AF778E4
>
> The EDDSA key is an ed25519 ECC [1] key. ECC keys in GnuPG are a new
feature
> of GnuPG 2.1. And for compatibility reasons they should still be avoided.
> Gpg4win still uses the stable branch of GnuPG (2.0) that does not
support ECC
> keys.
>
> So i guess for this key Enigmail correctly told you that the key type
is not
> supported. (The error message probably could have been a bit more
verbose ;-)
> )
>
> We are planning to release a beta of Gpg4win that includes GnuPG 2.1
end of
> November.
>
>
> Regards,
> Andre
>
>
> 1: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_Curve_Cryptography

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