eccGnuPG

[Sergi Blanch i Torné]

On Tuesday 20 March 2007 17:51, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Some people have asked me about ECC support in GnuTLS, and your work
> would provide a good foundation for that.  What is the status of this
> work?  Any chance ECC support will be integrated into libgcrypt?

The bad think is that I am not full time dedicated on a ecc. As fas as I can, 
I want to port the code to libgcrypt (and also do a patch for gpg2). But also 
there are some channel attack that I am working to prevent.

> I am aware of some patent concerns, but I'm actively trying to get
> more information on the situation.

There exist patens over some algorithms, but not the ones that are used on 
this module. At less, I think, it doesn't use anything patented. ECDSA to 
sign and EC_Diffie-Hellman scheme plus an AES256 and a SHA256 are the used 
algorithms.

/Sergi.