Beyond Curve25519

[Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman]

Only the NIST curves? Then there is a real need to implement others I would
imagine, considering?
On Jan 15, 2015 4:49 PM, "Daniel Kahn Gillmor" <dkg at fifthhorseman.net>
wrote:

> On Thu 2015-01-15 06:54:58 -0500, Milan Kral 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/
> >
> > https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/647.pdf
>
> The only stronger curves available in GnuPG at the moment are the NIST
> curves.  I agree that E-521 would be a reasonable choice for a
> high-strength curve, but i don't think anyone has specified or
> implemented it yet for OpenPGP.
>
>             --dkg
>
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