Beyond Curve25519

[Kristian Fiskerstrand]

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On 01/15/2015 11:01 PM, lists-gnupgdev at lina.inka.de wrote:
> Am Thu, 15 Jan 2015 21:53:33 +0100 schrieb Hanno Böck
> <hanno at hboeck.de>:
> 
>> On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 12:54:58 +0100 Milan Kral
>> <milan.kral at azet.sk> wrote:
>> 
>>> the security of Curve25519 is about 2^125. Are there plans to 
>>> implement stronger ECC in GnuPG? Good candidate would be E-521,
>>> it's one of the recommended curves on
>>> http://safecurves.cr.yp.to/
>> 
>> I find the search for "better than curve25119 curves" quite 
>> questionable.
> 
> I wish we had Curve 25519 and EdDSA with Ed25519 in OpenPGP, then
> we can go on with other safe curves. Why are the RFCs  all so NIST 
> heavy?
> 

http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-koch-eddsa-for-openpgp-01.txt , but it
isn't yet approved or IANA assigned for algoid 22. It is included in
gnupg 2.1 and supported in the development branch of SKS though

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