Question on Adding Support for Classic McEliece

[Werner Koch]

On Thu, 11 Sep 2025 02:57, Tanveer Salim said:

> It seems the GNUPG developers are interested in adding support for Classic
> McEliece in the near future. I am excited about this. Now that GNUPG v

I don't know about this.  McEliece was added to Libgcrypt but there is
no plan to add it to GnuPG.  The old agreement we had with the PGP.com
folks (PRZ and Jon Callas) still holds.  This is to limit the
proliferation of algorithms to the absolutely necessary list.  For
example only for political reasons we had to add algorithms like
Camellia, Brainpool, and now FIPS-203 but that's it.



Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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