Future plans for implementation of other algorithms

Johan Wevers johanw at vulcan.xs4all.nl
Wed Jan 26 11:13:43 CET 2011


Op 26-1-2011 11:02, Werner Koch schreef:

>> (Not that I'm saying there's anything wrong with using 1.4; I just doubt
>> ECC will be back-ported.)
> 
> Well, at some point in time we might need to do that.  If there are many
> ECC keys in use there is probably a need for ECC for server applications
> as well.

Considering the modular setup (remembering the separate RSA module when
there were RSA patent issues, and IDEA is still a module) I assume this
is not very difficult.

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Met vriendelijke groet,

Johan Wevers




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