** Description changed:

  [Impact]
  We have received feedback from users that use NIST-P256 keys for their 
repositories that are upset about receiving a warning. APT 2.8.0 in 
noble-proposed would bump the warning to an error, breaking them.
  
  We also revoked additional ECC curves, which may still be considered
  trusted, so we should not bump them to errors.
  
  [Solution]
  Hence we will restore all elliptic curve keys of 256 or more bit to trusted:
  
      
">=rsa2048,ed25519,ed448,nistp256,nistp384,nistp512,brainpoolP256r1,brainpoolP320r1,brainpoolP384r1,brainpoolP512r1,secp256k1";
  
  At the same time we will also introduce a more nuanced approach to
  revocations by introducing a 'next' level that issues a warning if the
  key is not allowed in it and a 'future' level that will issue an audit
  message with the --audit option.
  
  For the next level, we will set it to:
  
      ">=rsa2048,ed25519,ed448,nistp256,nistp384,nistp512"
  
  This means we restrict warnings to Brainpool curves and the secp256k1
  key, which we have not received any feedback about them being used yet.
  
  For the future level, we will take a strong approach to best practices
  as it is only seen when explictly running with --audit and the intention
  is to highlight best practices. It will be set to
  
-     ">=rsa3072,ed25519,ed448";
+     ">=rsa3072,ed25519,ed448";
  
  Which corresponds to the NIST recommendations for 2031 (and as little
  curves as possible)
  
  [Test plan]
  Tests are included in the library unit tests for parsing the specification 
strings; we have also included a test for the gpgv method to ensure that it 
produces the correct outcome for both 'next' and 'future' revoked keys.
  
  A spot check with a 1024-bit RSA repository and a 4096 RSA repository
  would still be nice.
  
  [Where problems could occur]
  There could of course be bugs in the implementation of the new feature; this 
could result in verification of files failing. This also happens if you specify 
an invalid `next` or `future` string.
  
  There cannot be any false positives: The new levels are only
  *additional* checks, anything not in the `Assert-Pubkey-Algo` list is
  still revoked.

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