GnuPG has now full ECC support (ECDSA, ECDH)

[Andrey Jivsov]

  Hello GnuPG!

I am happy to announce that GnuPG now fully implements ECC encryption 
and signing capability. A user can generate an ECC key with gpg2 
--gen-key and use it to encrypt or sign messages or keys. 256, 384, and 
521 bit ECC keys are supported.

This branched off implementation resides at the 
http://code.google.com/p/gnupg-ecc/ and follows the "ECC in OpenPGP" 
IETF draft http://sites.google.com/site/brainhub/pgp .

Please refer to these sites for details and up-to-date status of the 
effort to bring ECC to users of OpenPGP format.

Instead of wishing for this to happen for many years, I decided that the 
time is right to actually spend a few of my weekends and contribute the 
working source code to the OpenPGP community.

The ideal destiny of the gnupg-ecc project is to be merged into mainline 
GnuPG source tree. I look forward working with GnuPG team to make this 
merge happen.

Thank you. It's been my pleasure getting more familiar with gnupg and 
libgcrypt source code and I look forward finishing this effort up.