Elliptic curves in gnupg status?

Faramir faramir.cl at gmail.com
Sat Apr 24 05:24:02 CEST 2010


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markus reichelt escribió:
> * Alexander Murauer <segler_alex at web.de> wrote:
> 
>> is there any plan to get ecc in mainstream gnupg? most stuff i
>> found about gnupg and ecc is outdated. does somebody know something
>> about this?
> 
> search the archives of the devel mailinglist. ecdsa. don't expect any
> real info, tho.

  Well, I don't know anything about development plans, I think it is
very likely we won't see ecc implemented in GnuPG _unless_ it is
included first in OpenPGP standard. If GnuPG implements ecc before it
becomes standard, we would get keys that would only work with GnuPG
versions including ecc.

  Best Regards
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