Algorithm support - patch for Elliptic Curve available ?

Werner Koch wk@gnupg.org
Mon Aug 5 22:15:37 2002


On Mon, 5 Aug 2002 09:42:33 +0200 (CEST), Alexandre Dulaunoy said:

> I'm looking for a support in GnuPG of Elliptic Curve and Elliptic Curve 
> DSA. Is there somebody working on that ? 

This is not fully specified in OpenPGP and thus we can't implement it.
Frankly, I don't think that EC based algorithms make any sense for
OpenPGP.  There is a thread on adding ECC top OpenPGP in the WG's ML
archive.

I'd like to have EC code for Libgcrypt, though.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner