Question on Adding Support for Classic McEliece

[Tanveer Salim]

Hi Werner,

Thanks for responding.

I am now curious.

Why was Classic McEliece added to Libgcrypt in that case?

Please let me know.

Best,
Tanveer Salim



Sep 15, 2025, 3:33 AM by gnupg-devel at gnupg.org:

> 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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