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Sometimes I feel that I'd like migrate my certificate key some day from the current RSA-4096 to ED-25519.

Can I bless the trust to the new certificate key or do I actually have to fucking meet F2F other kernel maintainers? ;-)

#linux #kernel #pgp
The reason being the key length. Right, and I also would like to re-parent my subkeys if I ever do that.

@jarkko why do you need to bringnover the subkeys?

@andrewg Less migration in one shot :-) I could create new ones if that is impossible but then I need to update e.g. my authentication key in a number of places.

@jarkko I think sequoia supports adoption of old subkeys, but I haven't tried it myself. Migration to new pgp keys is still very much WIP... 😳

@andrewg Yeah, so I'm also pro-actively worried about web of trust in this case, as unless I can migrate trust to a new ceritficate key, it is impossible to use it in future new subkeys e.g. for signing Git tags for Linux kernel.
Andrew Gallagher

@jarkko I'm currently working on a draft spec that does just this, but nobody has implemented it yet. If this would be of use to kernel developers, I'd be happy to mention it, to encourage the implementers... datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft

IETF DatatrackerOpenPGP Key ReplacementThis document specifies a method in OpenPGP to suggest a replacement for an expired, revoked, or deprecated primary key.
@andrewg,
@nwalfield I did not expect anything to this, and got so much great feedback, thank you!
@andrewg @nwalfield And you really know how to pitch your software.

Usually it is like "look I made this better version of this tool with Rust" or something, and not pointing out the exact features that help to solve a particular problem (and more often than not you end up finding that the particular tool cannot resolve your problem).

This type doing right things right is rare today (unfortunately).