[gnutls-devel] GnuTLS | x509: support encoding of ML-DSA private keys in CHOICE format (!1973)

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Daiki Ueno commented on a discussion on src/certtool-options.json: https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/merge_requests/1973#note_2603147005

 >            "detail": "This option can be combined with --generate-privkey, to specify\nthe key type to be generated. Valid options are, 'rsa', 'rsa-pss', 'rsa-oaep', 'dsa', 'ecdsa', 'ed25519, 'ed448', 'x25519', and 'x448'.'.\nWhen combined with certificate generation it can be used to specify an\nRSA-PSS certificate when an RSA key is given.",
 >            "argument-type": "string"
 >          },
 > +        {
 > +          "long-option": "key-format",
 > +          "description": "Specify the key format to use on key generation",
 > +          "detail": "This option can be combined with --generate-privkey, to specify\nthe key format to be generated, when the key type is ML-DSA. Valid options are, 'seed', 'expanded', and 'both'.",

It would be too complicated to implement, as in some cases (e.g., `certtool -k`) the key type is known only after decoding the key itself. I'd leave it as-is, as most of the other options that don't take effect are simply ignored.

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