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Import public key only (feature request) #102

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ixe013 opened this issue Sep 30, 2021 · 0 comments

ixe013 commented Sep 30, 2021

Would you be open to a pull request that allows one to upload his public key only to this GPG plugin?

Obviously, not all operations would work, because there would not be a private key to do operations like signature. On the other hand, it would enable a new "Encrypt" use case. Current Transit public-key encryption uses OEAP and SHA256 which gives only a few hundreds bits worth of plaintext data that can be encrypted, barely enough for an AES256 key, not to mention that you would have to do the decryption by hand after that...

(This is different than issue #85 where the private key is imported.)

It would simplify adoption for teams that already have a key pair, many of them on a Yubikey, with the private key hard/impossible to export.

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Issue with importing external key #287

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