As of today we don't want to maintain another binding; see T3395

The Python bindings are troublesome enough; as of today we don't want to maintain a Perl module.

C part done; C++ interface is not yet done.

• compressed representation of EC point can be used in:
  • public key
  • (exporting) private key
  • signature
  • ECDH ephemeral key
• For the initial implementation, I'd like to limit our effort for curves of NIST and Brainpool, except NIST P-224, which p = 3 mod 4.

Creating is not that useful - we prefer modern curves anyway.

I think that retrieving a parameter in compressed format is all what we need as per API.

(3) _gcry_ecc_os2ec in libgcrypt/mpi/ec.c should be modified to support parsing compressed representation.

What kind of API should we offer?
(1) offering something like q@comp name for gcry_mpi_ec_get_mpi
But...
If the intended use case will be in create_request function in gpg/sm/certreqgen.c for subjectKeyIdentifier, the 'q' is already generated in the form of SEXP.
It is up to an application (gpgsm), to convert non-compressed point representation to compressed point representation, here.

It's in master (to be gnupg 2.3).
Enjoy.

The qualitybar has now been removed from 2.2 and master.

We will need this for 1.9

Yes, its on my agenda.

Since this issue is what I came across when googling for gpg inspect revocation certificate, I thought I’d add what I found out:

I'd be interested, is this is still on the agenda?

Your welcome.

I regret to have distracted your attention. All the above applies to a terminal window (KDE's konsole) in my GUI KDE. On the bare FreeBSD console, everything is fine. So this is a bug in some KDE library or konsole. I'm sorry I did not have the idea to test that on the bare console right away. I'll close this bug here.

Hello Mr. Niibe,

It seems that nl_langinfo(CODESET) returns US-ASCII on your system.

My FreeBSD box is currently not up, so I can't test right now. You may want to look into gnupg/common/utf8conv.c and there set_native_charset(). For historical reasons we start off with latin-1 but then swicth to the selected charset and intialize iconv accordingly. In the case of an error we sometimes fallback to utf-8. You may want to add some debug code (log_debug ("foo bar string=%s\n", some_string);)

in your test, which you did on Linux I guess, 'utf-8' is written downcase, whereas on my system, it is written uppercase 'UTF-8', conforming to what I find elsewhere (e.g. Wikipedia). I do not know though, if there is a recommended way to spell it. 2nd, I know that FreeBSD has some issues with internationalization: it does not support charsets in their POSIX meaning, but emulates them by combining all available locales and CODESETs. Usually, this is not a problem, and most translations and handling of UTF-8 works as expected. Maybe this has some subtle effect causing this issue.

Hello Werner,

OpenPGP specifies the use of UTF-8 for all meta data (ie. everything except for the signed/encrypted data). GnuPG has always supported this. I don't known on which OS you are but some don't have UTF-8 support on the command line or tty so you need to tweak your environment first.

Shall we backport this to 2.2 which is our LTS release?

With the recent change the --sender option has an effect on the selection of the User ID used for the key validity check and the TRUST_ status lines:

MAPI Namespace has a pickFolder method which can be used here.

We already have the option --sender which does what @mgorny requests but only in the TOFU case. I need to revisit the system to see whether we can extend it to WoT and direct key signatures.

no prob