Re: [aur-general] Fwd: gnupg-largekeys in AUR

On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Jerome Leclanche wrote:

On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Ido Rosen wrote:

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On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Jerome Leclanche

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What's the outcome on this? I'm interested in large keys in default gnupg.

That said, is there a reason why the patch isnt upstream yet? J. Leclanche

It was rejected upstream previously a few times.

If we want it, it has to be a patch on upstream in our gpg version. I believe the reasoning that allowing larger key sizes are a performance issue for mobile does not really apply here.

That sounds like the kind of perfect use case for a compile-time option.

J. Leclanche

If you mean an upstream compile-time option (i.e. not in the PKGBUILD), I agree wholeheartedly. Now all we have to do is convince Werner Koch, which means emailing gnupg-users/gnupg-devel, or submitting a bug report with a patch (and a copyright assignment). Closed bugs related to this are: https://bugs.g10code.com/gnupg/issue1441 https://bugs.g10code.com/gnupg/issue1460 FWIW, the pattern in upstream seems to be that anyone who suggests a larger max key size gets told no for a few years, and then it happens anyway. That is, if you can call 2 data points (2048, then 4096) a pattern...