Future problems with OpenGPG card and ECC

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Thu Feb 17 20:43:00 CET 2011


On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:02, kgo at grant-olson.net said:

> I didn't know about the javacard implementation until just now, but I
> think another big problem is that the ZietControl cards seem to only
> support a ECC-167.  That curve isn't set to be included with the new

I heard that they also support GF(p) but is seems that only the
brainpool curves are in the ROM and the NIST curves must be explicitly
defined.

Time to do our own chip OS.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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