About a project to make gnupg2 ISO/IEC 19790 compliant

Simon Josefsson simon at josefsson.org
Fri Jan 29 10:56:23 CET 2010


Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> writes:

> On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:06, simon at josefsson.org said:
>
>> Are you implementing this in GnuPG or libgcrypt?  It would be useful to
>> have this in libgcrypt, to be able to use it for X.509 and TLS in
>> GnuTLS.
>
> What I forgot to mention.  We do have OAEP patches available; I just
> missed to apply them.

It would be nice to get them into libgcrypt -- I don't recall any OAEP
TLS ciphersuites, but it will help to have libgcrypt be ready once they
do appear so people won't have to upgrade libgcrypt too.  On the other
hand, maybe TLS will just skip OAEP and do PSS.  Or neither...

/Simon



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