> Some services still support legacy ciphers for backwards comparability.
>
This is a distraction to my original e-mail, but I was referring to how some
SSH servers don't support ECC so I need to use RSA. GPG deprecates weak
ciphers, anyhow (right?), so I'm unclear on what relevance it has to GPG.
> I think that is a bit technical for an FAQ. Quantum computing is still an
> active field of research, and it will likely be quite some time before
> current algorithms are broken.
>
If we added a FAQ to the effect of:
"Is GPG quantum secure?
"Although there are currently no known quantum computers or attacks that can
crack the cyphers used in GPG, quantum computers could theoretically
drastically shorten brute force attacks against algorithms X, Y, & Z that would
make them crackable.
"Algorithms A, B & C (if any) used in GPG are not known to be vulnerable to
these sorts of attacks."
... I don't think that would be any more technical than the existing FAQ
documentation. We don't need to go into the theory of superposition to provide
useful information.
> Camellia is a symmetric cipher so you would not use it to create a key.
>
Understood. Since I haven't used GPG to encrypt anything directly, that would
explain why it hasn't been offered to me.
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