keys made with the RSAEncrypt usage flag should be usable for encrypt…#439
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…ion. keys nowadays are made with the RSAEncryptOrSign but older keys are not.
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While this code looks technically correct, it'd probably be better to include a test that shows that encrypting to such an old key works. However, in the course of looking into making a test, i have to ask whether this is a concretely useful change, or just something that makes the OpenPGP ecosystem worse. RSA encrypt-only and RSA sign-only keys were formally deprecated ("SHOULD NOT be generated") in RFC 4880, released in November 2007, over 15 years ago. I don't know of any public key material that is that old that is a good idea to still encrypt to in practice. For archival purposes, i can see why you might want a test that enables decryption of material with such a secret key, but in general i don't think it's a good idea to enable encryption now, in 2023. |
keys made with the RSAEncrypt usage flag should be usable for encryption. keys nowadays are made with the RSAEncryptOrSign but older keys are not.