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Kleopatra: Add new option for allowed PGPKeyTypes
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This is about a solution for issue behind T7674: Kleopatra: Restore behavior of RSAKeySizes and PGPKeyType on master (KF6), the solution in T7674 was for the legacy kf5 branch only.

On master the new option AllowedPGPKeyTypes should support a list of algorithms (same as gpg's --quick-add-key and --quick-gen-key support). This new name ensures that there is no confusion with the old option PGPKeyType.

PGPKeyType and RSAKeySizes should be migrated to AllowedPGPKeyTypes, i.e. PGPKeyType=RSA + RSAKeySizes=NNN,MMM would become AllowedPGPKeyTypes=rsaNNN,rsaMMM. The old settings PGPKeyType and RSAKeySizes should be left as-is by the migration so that people trying out a beta version don't break the configuration of their production version.

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• ebo triaged this task as Normal priority.Jun 16 2025, 12:43 PM
• ebo created this task.
• ebo renamed this task from Kleopatra: to Kleopatra: Add new option for allowed PGPKeyTypes.Jun 16 2025, 12:56 PM
• ikloecker updated the task description. (Show Details)Jun 16 2025, 2:29 PM
• ikloecker updated the task description. (Show Details)
• werner added a subscriber: • werner.Tue, Mar 10, 5:14 PM

Shall that be used for key creation or shall a warning be displayed when a non-allowed key is used (receive or send)?

• werner added a project: Info Needed.Tue, Mar 10, 5:14 PM
• ikloecker added a comment.Tue, Mar 10, 5:23 PM

It would be used for key creation just like the legacy options PGPKeyType and RSAKeySizes were used (and still can be used but only for RSA with different key sizes).

• ebo lowered the priority of this task from Normal to Wishlist.Mon, Mar 23, 1:56 PM
• ebo removed a project: Info Needed.

After talking to Werner I lower the prio as apparently there is no direct customer request for this