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Sun Sep 24 17:29:01 CEST 2006


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On 09/24/2006 05:08 PM, Alphax wrote:
>>> And therefore, even better, what is the present status of adding to
>>> GnuPG an "official" ECC keys support?
>> ECC are not part in RFC2440 nor there's a plan to include them.
> 
> You're wrong.
> 
> 9.1. Public Key Algorithms
>        ID           Algorithm
>        --           ---------
>        18         - Reserved for Elliptic Curve
>        19         - Reserved for ECDSA
I haven't seen much traffic on ietf-openpg mailing list about this
issue, maybe the last message about ECC was in 2001.
ECC is not a priority task for RCF2440, do you think this statement is
more acceptable?
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